"What're you trying to do?"

"Turn it on and then read content that's on it."

"The power button is here." Poke. Blink. "Was she possibly motivated to tease you, I'm not sure this is charged."

"She might have been, she couldn't believe I didn't already have a computer."

"It would in fact be pretty weird." Cam makes an induction charger and plops the computer onto it. The screen comes alive and goes from flat to slightly textured. There is a clearly visible file tree, containing a folder labeled Complete Works - Nelyafinwë Maitimo and one labeled Top Ten 2000's Romance Novels, GRC. Cam blinks at this selection.

He totally fails to notice Cam's reaction, or at least that's what his own reaction would indicate. "Thanks. Does the charger go bad?"

"In a manner of speaking. When the little light on top of the computer is green it's full and you can take it off till it goes red, and you can fill it up from red on this charger five times, and a charge will last for a couple weeks."

"And then what happens to the charger?"

"Then it too needs charging, typical use case has it plugged into a socket in one's wall that's hooked up to electricity-delivering infrastructure."

"Thank you. I am totally going to throw Michael at that demon; they deserve each other."

"She's over four hundred years old."

"I'll tell him she doesn't look it."

"2179 frowns on teenager/400-year-old-demon age gaps."

"So if I'd taken her up on it she would have said 'actually, no, sorry, if you're not twenty it will offend the sensibilities of the elephants-are-people people - can you date elephants - can elephants date if they're in their teens -"

"Very few people feel motivated to date elephants. Especially since we don't actually have a way to talk to them. Elephants are permitted to self-police on these matters amongst themselves. And Amriac could guess your age and obviously didn't care, but that's going more by Hell norms than human ones."

"The Hell ones seem more relevant than the human ones unless I was planning to appoint him ambassador to 2179 which I was not. What's the concern, exactly, because if it's 'lasting emotional scars' Michael avidly collects those..."

"...that would be a succinct description, I guess... communication problems and disparate expectations and that sort of thing..."

"- I could impress upon him that it'd mean a lot to me if he conducts himself with maturity and demonstrates sensible communication skills and nothing at all goes down in a fiery flaming wreck, and he'll go '- wait, you're actually serious. Uh, okay.' and then he would be a model of good relationship skills and only a little bored."

"I mean, separately I have no reason to believe she's girlfriend material."

"The only kinds of relationships at Hogwarts are 'chaste and headed towards a respectable marriage agreed upon by all four sets of grandparents' 'pretending to be that and maybe experimenting in empty classrooms occasionally' or 'horribly mangling your reputation or that of your partner by having other intentions or no declared intentions or a disapproving family'. To which of these categories does 'girlfriend' map?"

"Not? Amriac is a naturally occurring demon with no relatives of any kind, I could actually see her marrying somebody but it would be because she thought it sounded like fun and not because she ascribed any significance to the post-wedding state of affairs, she has a lot of casual sex and literally nobody cares about the fact that she does that."

"I think my brother would like that society much better."

"It would make the collecting emotional scars harder."

"True - I think he would like a dating pool with those norms much better, he doesn't want to give people who don't want emotional scars any."

"Puberty honestly sounds kind of like a form of mind control."