"Also something I've heard, seems like a separate phenomenon."

"Huh. Well that goes some way to explaining why being around fairies would be bad for humans even if they're not treated poorly by our standards."

"- the whole thing I have been explaining or just that part, because that part doesn't seem particularly explanatory to me."

"The whole thing."

"Yup. I mean, also, the standards of nutrition are not great in this time period but I bet faeries routinely manage to undershoot them."

"That I knew about. Most courts don't have routine access to a lot of food, not as much as humans need."

"Which makes 'em a questionable choice of pet."

"We can trade for all of them, now."

"Think everybody'll c- metaphorically, uh - you know what that one doesn't make sense if you aren't used to it - trade for them?"

"Most everybody? Probably a couple people are both in love and powerful enough in their court to veto a deal but I wouldn't expect to run into that more than twice, across the continent."

"Well, maybe the ones who are in love with their humans are actually nice to them according to the human, wouldn't that be neat."

"It would. I don't know, I could be guessing wrong about how commonly there'll be objections."

"We'll find out, I suppose."

"Yeah. When do you want to leave?"

"Good question. Where are we going first?"

"Don't know. I'll talk with my brother and draw up an itinerary. Assuming you want to leave right away."

"I mean, I need to leave Auda however many meals and some more reading material and stuff, but other than that I don't think we're waiting on anything? I guess we could design the certificates of positive sum in more detail."

"I guess that might make uptake faster."

So they can design certificates and a currency to denominate them in! It occurs to Cam that the coins could have some kind of computer generated pattern on them so no person counts as the artist to whom debt may accrue; tests of this guess hold up.

Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce.

"And I should make enough of it exist that it flattens out in value, yeah?"

"Yep. Looks like the effects of additional ones are pretty negligible once there are twenty."

Cam's little box accumulates twenty lovely synthetic garnet coins.

"I'll go get an itinerary."

"Okay!" chirps Cam.