"I was one of the star clouds working on keeping parasites from evolving, which is a really common thing for people to do with their afterlives.  I never heard of anyone working on preventing cancer.  Maybe it was solved a long time ago or just takes less maintenance, I suppose, but it might just be another difference between our humanities the same way lungs are."

"Yeah, I'd be sort of surprised if it was low-maintenance and less surprised if your cells just don't get jumped up in quite that way in the first place."

"Mm.  The star is trying to pitch me on having you load up the body with the highest potentially-reasonable number of extra limbs, since other people will presumably also want similar things and they expect it would be better for the limit to be known sooner rather than later."

"I guess I could do extra arms and wings and a big tail to balance all that."

"They're also wondering whether it would be possible to split each arm at the elbow, total of eight hands, but I think I'm making progress on convincing them that even with four I'm only as coordinated as I am because I don't have to divide my attention equally between my bodies and am generally not moving all of my selves at once.  Yes or no on digitigrade legs, being really tall, unique skin tones and eye colors, horns, fangs, pointed ears, that sort of thing?  Any sensory enhancement on offer?"

(The various remaining winters smile to themselves out the window and squirm and bite their lip and dig their fingernails into their arm, and say nothing.)

"I can do digitigrade and tall. Colors and horns and fangs and ears are all low risk and doable as long as I don't use a pigment that'll poison a local or something. If they wanna be furry I can do that too. I do not know there to be prior art on arm splits so I wouldn't be confident I could make that work to begin with. I can add weird cartilaginous superfluities no big deal. I can do claws but they might want that on only one set of arms. I can do hooves, on the digitigrade legs. Sensory enhancements I wouldn't want to build in organically knowing as little as I do about how you work but there's tech options."

" - Would we have to die to get at the tech options?  Or otherwise generate inconvenience?"

"No, I can do those on live people no big deal. Do you know how to use contacts?"

"The lenses that go on the surface of your eyes?"

"That's them."

"Given the context I expect I would be very motivated to learn!"

"Well, I don't want to stick a pair on your eyeballs if you're going to try to pry your cornea off when you next go to bed, but when you know what you're doing with contact lenses let me know and you can have fancy ones. Hearing doodads I can hand out now." Earbuds in a little case with the controls on the lid for all the starchildren.

"Eeeeeeeeeeee."

"I sometimes wear contacts; I could teach the rest of us," notes Manius (or S. Manius, her nametag helpfully clarifies) as the three of them dive into the earbuds.

"Sure." He doesn't stick them directly on her eyeballs, she gets a little case too, and an instruction manual.

"Are these magically my prescription?"

"They dynamically adjust. If you're more into the HUD features than the vision ones you can wear them with your glasses and tell them not to do that."

"Eee."  She holds out her hand.

Case! Instruction manual!

"Just one?"

"I guess it might be inconvenient to get me for more sets after everyone has had Intro to Contact Lenses." More sets.

"I don't know how I would teach Intro to Contact Lenses without having any for students to use.  And it's unsanitary for our kind of human to share them."

"I was assuming you had packed some but perhaps you felt there was too much of a hurry."

". . . But those are mine - never mind, thank you very very much for these."

"Sorry, I don't actually know how contact lenses work, I have never used them, I thought maybe you had unused spares or something. It doesn't matter."