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After Cam's magic but still basically human boyfriend has fallen asleep and Cam finds he is not tired enough to do the same, Cam goes downstairs.
Mingling arrives
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chanuphis
"I don't think he's scared of tiny Maitimo, I think he didn't want to scare tiny Maitimo."
too-early-and-too-late
"Tiny Maitimo asked me if he'd done something wrong. The reason he wants to fix things is because the things are making the people in his presence sad and all he knows is that that's really bad, he's four, he doesn't have any concept of what the world should be like more sophisticated than 'these people around me should not be suffering' -"
chanuphis
"If you tell Cam to fake it for tiny Maitimo he can probably do that... well, I don't know how sophisticated you were when you were four, maybe not quite..."
too-early-and-too-late
"I don't know either. Okay. Thank you."
And he goes upstairs.
too-early-and-too-late
Okay.
He pulls out his computer and tries to figure out how to send large files to other computers.
too-early-and-too-late
He should've given him a potion for nightmares.
He occasionally twitches his wand so the blankets will wrap Cam up more cozily.
from_scratch
They're very cozy blankets with demonically amazing threadcount. Cam stretches out under them.
"Hey."
too-early-and-too-late
"The small me is learning to read from an Elf because it turns out it's hard to teach someone to read if you don't speak or read their language, even with Milliways translating. Michael and Amriac went to Ireland to bother the dragons, Miranda's holding the door. The Elf sets are hanging out and presumably catching up the ones who just invented writing; I'm guessing it hasn't been very long for them because they would at some point go check on their tiny child."
from_scratch
"Has anyone explained to them that time may pass differently for their tiny child."
too-early-and-too-late
"Don't know, I'll message them -"
He does that.
"Tiny child wrote you a message which I doubt you'll find helpful but I didn't want to tell him what to say."
too-early-and-too-late
"And it probably pretty much works for 'em, psychologically? They're all immortal and their world is pretty great and the only other world they know of is 25 lightyears off but everyone there is immortal too, and they invent their way along and then everything's post-scarcity and he could have pretty much gone until the war started without 'I am personally responsible for everyone I come across or hear about' being unhealthy as a habit. I think it will be good for him, losing it sooner."
