It is about halfway through the third hour of the fifteenth day of Lucette's attempt to reorganize her grandfather's library. The project is moving at an acceptable pace overall, though she's starting to question the wisdom of having scheduled the whole thing down to the hour during day three (hour four).
"Mm.. I don't have anything specific in mind at the moment."
"...also I'm curious what positive aesthetic opinions you have about the behavior of my internal organs."
"Mostly it's like - if I could hear your heartbeat I think I'd like that and instead I have this. Most of your other organs aren't moving around very much at the granularity I can detect."
"- well, I don't know all that much about you so I'm - guessing, what the best ways are to be a positive force in your life, and that's manifesting a lot as anxiety about being in your way and taking up your time, but I think that might lessen once I know more about opportunities to improve on 'not in the way'."
"Oh... For whatever it's worth I do prefer you take up time in my life and involve yourself and let me know about your preferences when relevant."
"I prefer for you to be happy, and also I think you are very interesting and important and there are no people like that in my life who pay attention to me."
"There are somewhat interesting people, but none of them are nearly as important as I think you probably are."
"I don't know much. I guess I could maybe reconstruct how to build a tricycle, if you haven't invented bicycles yet someone could maybe figure it out from that but I had a tricycle because I can't balance a bicycle."
"I think the healing ability will be important independently of anything you know, but what's a tricycle?"
"It sounded like you weren't very bullish on the power being useful but maybe I misunderstood you... a tricycle is a three wheeled personal vehicle powered by pedaling. Bicycles are more popular, they only have two wheels and they corner better and handle more terrain, but people have to learn to balance on them."
"I think it would be more useful if it did diseases or old wounds, but I think your point of it still being useful in a hospital was a good one. How do tricycles and bicycles compare to horses and carriages?"
"Well, you don't have to feed them and they don't poop or get sick or kick you and they take up a lot less space. I think whether they're competitive on speed probably depends on things I don't know but nobody uses horses in the city where I grew up anymore."
"Yes because I learned to maintain my own tricycle. I could try to... draw... it... in... very small letters so I can see what I'm doing, maybe."
Nod.
"We can devise some method, I'm sure. Though for now it seems premature to focus on one particular thing, unless you expect a tricycle to be a revolutionary technology on its own."
"- not revolutionary but I don't know enough to reconstruct much of anything else and I'm a little worried about my memory of how the trike worked decaying as I go longer without having mine."
"I'm also interested in broad details and scientific information, especially relating to health, agriculture, and infrastructure - are your memories of the trike going to meaningfully decay in the next few days?"
"In that case, I'd like to hear more about the aforementioned subjects before discussing tricycles in particular, but also that can be delayed as well if you would rather rest."