"You can make air filters that get rid of allergens and airborne germs and stuff."

"Huh. Humans seem like their lives would benefit tremendously from more technology. In ways where - more technology will be nice for faeries but it won't be nearly as transformative."

"Currency's a technology, after a fashion. And if we can get the computers working fast they'll be amazing. I might need to know how exactly the thing where credit for a creative work accrues to the latest step in the sharing chain works... maybe if a computer program picks what you read next...? And does speech to text?"

"I have no idea. It'd be worth checking."

Cam writes this down in his inscrutably English notes.

"I think books whose authors are dead are also fine though this does seem complicated by the fact dead people don't stop existing. Like, you're dead, and it's possible to accumulate debts around you normally."

"I'm dead but I'm also here. Limboites don't get summoned. And most daeva aren't ex-humans."

"Then it's probably safe enough to read dead peoples' books but if we didn't get the books from you I wouldn't want to count on it."

"Most of the good stuff is from people not yet born."

"That's trickier. It might not count but it might count and show up when they become people, or something."

"...I'll hunt around for something by someone who will be born soon somewhere and we can test it carefully?"

"Good idea."

"Of course, if this interacts with the objective quality criterion this gets harder."

"No great inventors or composers in this year of humanity?"

"It doesn't stand out. Maybe something will jump out at - metaphorically jump out at me when I look up the date."

Nod.

The next court is the one with two heads. They're very entangled. They explain that debt incurred by the court flows to only one of them, but they have heard of this court which claimed it had a ritual that let the debt flow to both of you equally.

Cam's curious where it may be found!

Well west of here, coast of France.

He notes this down on a map.

And the trip otherwise concludes uneventfully.

"You were wonderful."

"Thank you! I'm generally happy to feed people." Wag wag.

"I think it made a big difference. We should wait and see how it's getting used in practice before we go do another batch, I think, but I'd like to at some point if you're willing."

"I'm up for it but I'm glad to have a break, I don't want my life to be nonstop snack parties."

"And it is good for your human to have company sometimes, I suspect."