Jisa's sobs have, by now, trailed off to quiet sniffles, her grip on Cam relaxing somewhat. 

Cam glances at poor Jisa. "Yeah, that seems ideal."

"She'll be right over." 

Jisa wriggles to be set down. "Cam Cam if you're going away now can you show me more video games first?" 

"There are some more in your headset! If you push this button on the side of the visor it'll take you to the menu, and then you can point at different ones, you have like, forty on there, the whole Welcome Set."

"Oooh!" Jisa puts the headset back on and pokes at buttons for the next couple of minutes, occasionally asking Cam questions. She seems thoroughly distracted from her earlier distress. 

And, shortly later, Keiran arrives. She looks tired, like someone who's stayed up late working too many nights in a row, but also hopeful. "Cam! Tran said you might be willing to help us with defensive measures? And that you wanted to talk tomorrow morning, but without coming back to Haven?" 

"Yeah! Here is a phone." He passes her one. "I can call the phone with my stuff even from space -" Hers lights up and shows Cam's user icon, a photo of him with a violin. "And you poke the green bit there, and then we're connected."

Keiran pokes at the phone with an awed expression. "Wow! And this isn't even magic?" 

"It's not even magic! It's much higher tech than you have, though, imagine trying to explain a loom to someone who has recently invented the sharp stick."

(Tran, half-forgetting that he's supposed to be annoyed with Cam right now, chuckles despite himself.) 

"Huh! Well, I think I'll be able to make it work - I'll have everything ready by tomorrow morning." Keiran smiles tiredly at Cam. "Thank you. I'd better get back to work." 

Kilchas, who's been watching Jisa's video game experimentation with fond amusement, glances at Cam and fidgets with the hem of his tunic. 

Cam makes some spare circles. "I should go collect the other spares I made, make sure they're all accounted for," he says, offering the stack of circles to Tran. "And then we can be on our way."

Some of the Heralds' rooms that he left spare circles and instructions in seem to have been cleaned in the meantime, beds made and floors scrubbed, but the papers were left alone and are all accounted for. 

And haven't been unfolded or anything? Great. Tran can have the lot. And instructions on what order to draw them in if they need to draw up a new one.

And would Kilchas like to board a spaceship now?

(Some of the papers were moved onto different tables or surfaces in order to clean, stacked neatly alongside the other Heraldic correspondence that tends to get left scattered around the room, but they don't look like they were otherwise obviously meddled with.) 

Kilchas WOULD like to board a spaceship now! He's so excited, and he's all packed and ready! 

Right then, off they go! Wheee!

Kilchas wants to know everything about how spaceships work! 

This is all pretty complicated but Cam can start him with an explanation of early rocketry and keep going for the duration of the trip up to the station.

Kilchas isn't especially well-educated by Cam's standards, but he asks sensible questions, and is already musing vaguely on ways to combine rocketry science with Velgarth magic. 

Cam docks at the station (it's labeled "ATRIAMA" in large letters but Kilchas won't recognize the alphabet) and makes Kilchas a layout map and invites him to take his pick of the bedrooms and come bother Cam in the biolab whenever he wants food or a change of clothes or whatever.

The first thing Kilchas wants to know is how he can look at the stars from here! He's an astronomer - just a hobby, he explains to Cam, but one he's had for decades. 

"There's an observation deck there!" Cam points it out on the map. "Different parts of the sky will be visible at different times."

Then Kilchas is going to be deeply absorbed for the next several hours! He's packed paper and note-taking materials of his own, so he doesn't need to bother Cam to ask for those.