"...the birds don't last after they die?"

The snow gradually lets up.  'No one there lasts after they die yet; they are simply eventually retrievable or not.  It is not an emergency but I had not connected the implications until now.'  It's no longer snowing at all.  'Please refrain from making any eggs.'

"I won't."

They nod.

"The person who saved seven lives sounds promising. Do you know anything else or is what you told me all the information I have to work with? Do you have their names, for example, I could use that to conjure for more."

'I have more information but nothing especially concrete or conveyable.  I could paint them.'

"That might or might not be enough for conjuration to go on."

They start on that, and eventually present four files to Cam.  They're less realistic than most of their other work, and the backgrounds are very abstract but very detailed - in places more so than the portraits proper.

"These two look, uh, young," says Cam, indicating the middle two. "Which are they?"

'The lifesaving one and the inventor.'

"The lifesaving one could be an adult, if a young looking one, the inventor probably can't..." He tries conjuring. "...unfortunately, it looks like I can't conjure for things relating to the subject of a painting."

'Magic can affect aging.'

"Do you know how old they are?"

'No.'

"Do you know how long ago they became vampires? - these people are all vampires?"

'The first one isn't.  I can order the other three chronologically but do not have much more detail than that.'

"Why don't you?"

'Artists have not as a species invented timekeeping.'

"Can you tell me some things that were going on at the time you turned them into vampires - newly released music, say - and some things that were going on when you left Earth?"

'I did not turn any of these people into vampires and I receive minimal information only about the projects people with magic are themselves working on.'

"They were turned later by other people? Okay. Uh, I'm going to see if Bar can narrow down who they are -"

She can't. With a few more creative failures at learning more Cam eventually says probably the young-adult lifesaver is the best bet.