"Most recently? Uh, Beethoven's ninth sonata for violin."

They look at Cam's violin, and at Cam, and back at the violin.

"Do you want me to play it again."

'I do.'

Cam rewinds his sheet music and takes up his violin and begins Beethoven's ninth violin sonata from the beginning.

They noodle quiet improvised accompaniments.

At the end of the sonata, Cam asks, "What's next for you?"

'I will continue to create more art and expand my reserves of magic.'

"Okay. Let me know if you need anything. Or, uh, want to introduce me to art-offspring."

'I do not think any of those are likely to make an appearance any time soon.'

"That's probably good, they'd complicate matters. - did making vampires produce any?"

'No.  The project was still in progress when interrupted.'

"- condolences, if those are appropriate."

'I consider them to be.'

"Does having an audience help? I'm up for looking at whatever you're working on."

'I do not believe it to be directly beneficial but you may look regardless.'  They keep at playing the guitar with two hands and have at any given moment the number required to operate their computer on top of that.

There are paintings, a few dozen of them, in various stages of completeness.  The medium and relatively-finished ones look a lot like those produced by incarnates at similar stages, but the early ones are completely different; they don't seem to have a concept of sketching at all, or if they do they don't use it here.  Their subject matter is exclusively representative and exclusively of non-nature subjects: lots of architecture, especially cathedrals and castles; lots of people, all of them very elegant and frequently wearing high-fashion sorts of getups; there's a realistically-rendered 16-frame animation of one production's Atriama doing what might be original choreography.

There are instrumental compositions, also variously fleshed out, some very short but fully orchestrated, others much longer but with portions of only melody or only chords blocked in for long stretches at a time.  They have recordings of the practice sessions they've done but aren't inclined to show those off, especially since they have largely occurred with Cam in range to hear them.  Every piece with more than two parts has a mix of synths and electric instruments with more classical ones.

And then there are four files with CGI models in them.  The first three aren't anything much, just basic shapes and one abandoned attempt at a donut, but the last is a ridiculously-detailed filigree panel, forming swirling leaf shapes at a distance and more inorganic crystalline ones up close.  It looks meticulously hand-modeled rather than autogenerated.

"Ooh, I like that," Cam says of the filigree, "and the implications about your learning curve here are really interesting."

Glitter rain.  'What are the implications.'

"You seem to have more - startling jumps in your technical competence than a... I don't have a good collective noun for the kinds of person that aren't your species, and 'non-artist' makes it sound like they don't make art at all... Uh, hm, I saw a slideshow once of every twentieth drawing, bar none, doodles included, by a particularly well regarded angel artist, and maybe that would give you an idea of how it's typical to develop over time, if you feel like it. But your first three projects here look like anybody else's first three projects, getting familiar with the interface, and then this is really fancy."

'I tried things alone at first, then began to follow a video tutorial but disliked the suggested subject matter.  So I read the descriptions for each of the interface options and treated the work as a creation I was committed to and did not discard it at the first frustration.  This is unusual?'

"Yes. Even someone who reads all the documentation will tend to need practice to get a good result, and practice usually takes the form of several inferior final drafts."

'I am already practiced at sculpture.'

"But not at computer modeling. It's not something I'm criticizing, it's just noticeably different."

'How could that be construed as criticism.'

"Uh, I'm not actually sure but usually when I spend this long picking apart exactly why I made some remark on somebody's skills or achievements it's because they interpreted it that way."