Okay!

Good, he'll see them in two weeks, then. He ends the call.

Sam has gone over the family budget, and they can put the Elves up for another week if they don't do too much driving around. They're welcome to stay indefinitely if they can cover their own expenses, though.

...they can bring food and stuff from Valinor?

Sure, that works fine. And if they can bring enough for the family, too, they can use their grocery budget for gas for the truck and buying things the Elves want.

That shouldn't be hard at all!

Great. They can go over the grocery list and come up with a reasonable set of requests.

In the meantime, they set up an email account and show them how to use it, and then show them how to find things on Amazon, with a focus on books and a digression into what the prices mean.

Prices are so confusing. Books are great, though, and music, they'll buy so much music.

Prices are confusing, but 'an hour of work at minimum wage will get someone about $5' is a pretty decent way of thinking about them.

They can have a $50 budget to start with; the family usually spends about $150 or $200 a week on food, but they want to make sure the Elves' food is okay for them before they actually spend their grocery money on this.

They will buy music!!!!!

$50 will get them quite a bit of music. They might also want to get a music player of their own, and speakers? Good speakers are a little pricey but even the $10 ones are better than what's built into the tablet.

Oooh, yes, definitely.

Okay. (Sam has gone back to work by this point; Shaney thinks the Elves are great.) So then here's how you place an order - ignore the credit card part, she'll set that up properly once they have something permanent worked out and then they won't have to deal with it again - and now they can listen to their new music on the tablet, and she'll put it on their player for them when that gets here, in a few days just like it said.

Eeeeeeeeee! What a brilliant system!!

Yep, they do get some things right, here.

Do they want to do anything else now, or get back to their reading?

And listening!

That goes without saying.

Shaney will go take care of some chores, then, they can come find her if they need anything.

They don't need anything!!  Everything is great!!

The rest of the day is pretty unremarkable; Chrissy continues to hang around and listen to their music, and Shaney has some questions for them after dinner about what kinds of food they can get, but for the most part they're left to their reading and listening.

And then they go back to Valinor, announce that it'll mostly be negotiating work to get all Earth's prisoners and even easier to get all the ones in institutions, and bring back food! So much food!

Oh wow. Uh. Most of this is probably going to go bad before they can eat it?

...go bad?

...yeah. Uh. Well, maybe Valinorean food doesn't, but food here goes bad after a while and will make you sick if you eat it.

They've never heard of that. How horrible.

Well, they're used to it, but if you aren't, yeah.

They can leave something out and it'll be obvious in a couple days whether Valinorean food stays good here, and in the meantime they'll refrigerate a week's worth of meals, and it's probably best not to take the risk of it all going bad, so they should either send the rest back or find someone else to take it, whichever the Elves would like.

Are there hungry people on Earth?