"I failed to notice that I am not into boys until I met a boy Bell, yes, but most of them are girls for the same mysterious cosmic reasons most of us are male -"

He's a fetching boy! Such a tail!

Moooooooooom -

Oh, good, have you discovered preferences besides not being tortured?

Yes!!! Yes!! I have!

"Anyway I would love a computer," she says, beaming at Cam, and Maitimë makes a spluttering noise.

"Computer!" says Cam, handing one over. "Teach it how you think and enjoy the best user interface in the multiverse, comes preloaded with everything pseudopublic, one of your alts will have to authorize you for anything your template can see that I am not allowed to."

"Thank you!!! I also want to meet my alts!"

"I can osanwë you the basics of the teleport spell," he does this, "and you can read the spell itself in the files and then you can bounce wherever you like and crash their think tanks."

"Thank you very much."

"Mmmhhmm!"

Wag. "No problem, anything else?"

She is distracted by the computer.

"I'll take that as a no. Dream, anybody else I should compute while I'm here?"

"My sister's'll probably all want one, I'll call them -" pause - "yeah, if you don't mind waiting a minute -"

"Can do." He has his own computer and fusses with it.

And here come sisters! "This is Isabella as a boy?"

"Yes," she says, more defensively than is actually necessary.

"Hi, Isabella as a boy."

"How do the computers work -"

"Hi, Tyelcormo as a girl. Uh, I am in fact competent to give a software engineering lecture but I am kind of booked timewise, I can't help you on the hardware and suspect you should just read the developers' documentation, which your alts have probably conveniently tucked into a folder for you," he tells Curufinwë.

"I'll do that."

Cam wiggles his fingers. "Chipped and," he hands out computers, "computerized, tutorial should be self-explanatory, yours is already in your alphabet," he tells Tyelcormë, "but our universal translation solution fixes that as an incidental, swing by Vanda Nossëo whenever to get that installed."

"Nelyafinwë Maitime, you did not mention universal translation -"