Cam catches a summons while he's in the middle of Atriama. He's seen it before, it's fine.
"I can be flexible on the timing if now is no good, I think I have enough money left for a zoo admission."
"I just don't know if there are any zoos that would be open to the public at night, is the main thing."
"I apologize on behalf of my universe for it being populated with entities which spend a full quarter of the time sleeping, nearly every night, and also only having one - I don't remember what they were called. Time . . . areas? Time codes? - For it being the same time everywhere."
"I'm sorry we only have one time zone. I guess it'll be two-ish once there's a cavern city - daylight beginning with the sunset, at least for part of the month . . ."
"I hope so! Erm, should I have a more formal introduction with Cricket; I wasn't sure how to handle that. Ms. Mistoffelees taught me a few words of catspeak but my pronunciation is still very poor, and it's not enough for even a very simple conversation anyways."
"Cricket is an extremely rude person except insofar as he seems fond of me personally and I'm not sure it would do either of you any good for you to introduce yourself and him to insult your accent."
"Well, I don't want to be an extremely rude person, so please do let me know if that changes."
"Will do. I guess as long as it's night here and there's nothing requiring people to be awake I should be doing, I can go visit the cavern and check it out!"
"Is there anything unwise about using 'chucking things off the edge' as a method of garbage disposal that isn't already encompassed by it being unwise to leave the edge accessible in the long run?"
"How convenient. Do any of you want to come - I don't know if it's wise, I'm going to check for environmental hazards, but you could stay in the shuttle if it's too hot or something."
"Do we want to bring nearly all of me or should I mostly file out?" asks the closest Felicity of the twenty-plus in the shuttle.
"Uh, hm. Do you have anywhere else to... go. You've kind of been hanging out in the shuttle all the time."
"No, not really. If there was another camper I would mind it being a little cramped less than with bodies that weren't mine? And if you give me some jackets I would probably be fine staying partially outside, unless it rains."
"I shall whip up another camper for you, one moment." He computer-aided-designs a cozy little barracks on wheels; it's about double decker height in total and includes a small sitting room for any of her that don't care to be lying down at any given moment. "Look good?"
"Looks great! - Also could I please have a radio flatdisk player and the four most recent Céline Daaé albums."