"...told her stories of shampoo commercials and other censorship," Cam explains.

Maitimo laughs.

"...shampoo commercials?" Mitros says.

"You rather have to see them," Maitimo says.

"You really don't, this is an Elf thing," Cam says. "Elves have a hair thing. They're probably politely scandalized that you've ever had a haircut in your life if they haven't mentioned that yet."

"We didn't," Maitimo and Findekáno say in unison. 

Mitros raises an eyebrow and removes the crown and runs a hand through his hair. "We didn't spend much time on cultural exchange, actually, it all rather got shoved aside by the story. Congratulations on winning your war, by the way." 

"...thanks."

"This world has a hundred thousand people dying irretrievably every day. I watched my father torture himself over that for long enough. It didn't give him some brilliant insight. Didn't save a single one of them. We do the best we can with what we've got. And we're about to have a lot more to be doing our best with, right?"

"...yeah. Uh, I will want to do some medical research before actually testing anything but since you seem to be pretty much humans and not pharmaceutically inconvenient Elves you may be able to get some working memory boosts, temporary but that's all you need, with various drugs and so on, and that's if we don't figure out how to cyborg you, and also it may just plain work for you to come to Endorë and perform summonings there, was that explained?"

"That was, yes. We'll send someone with you to try it. Any particular criteria for a first test?"

"Ability to follow simple instructions. And we'll know sooner whether you get the daeva afterlife that way if it's someone who is likely to die soon."

"All right." Mitros starts taking notes. "I asked someone to fetch my father, he'll pick up the engineering content faster than any of us - well, I suppose you'd know."

"He's going to notice how we're not actually speaking Marlese."

"He's been very patient about Iobel refusing to teach him her idiolect. He will probably speak whatever it is you're speaking by the end of the conversation but he won't question you about it in the meantime."

"I'm told that one should not learn her idiolect because then one could understand what her cat is saying and this is inadvisable."

"Her cat is mostly spitting aspersions on my character," Mitros says. "My father can no longer do anything if he learns the whole story but I think Iobel prefers that he doesn't."

"It would be awkward and Cricket is not an ideal source of gossip!"

"Well, he likes me okay but that's probably just because I'm an alternate universe version of her..."

Mitros runs his hand through his hair again. "Of course he likes you, you're Iobel as a boy and he adores her. For the correct reasons, too."

...Iobel looks thoughtfully at her husband.

Mitros is still occasionally giving Cam glances of frustrated anguish.

They get to work planning a tech introduction. Fannar comes in. He blinks at the Elves. Mitros gives him the short version. 

"Excellent," he says. "What language are they speaking-"

"Translation software, you can pick it up as you go -"

"And idiolects -"

"They don't have them."

"You poor souls," Fannar says pityingly. Then he sits down to learn electricity.

Which Cam, if not necessarily his translation software, is well equipped to explain, but he can just introduce Quenya vocabulary as he proceeds through introduction to electrical engineering - "My studies were all aimed at an audience of demons, so you will have to apply to the Elves for information on where to get your materials -"

The Elves have a plan in the works for importing things until there's a setup to acquire them locally. Endore has advanced industry and also summoning, it'll save time over building local industry.

And in the meantime if Fannar would like a computer like the one Cam gave Iobel he can have one.

He very much would. 

He is, being human, not in fact near-fluent in Quenya by the end of the conversation. But he's picked up a lot.

It's really impressive for a human! Cam does not say that part. It takes him a lot longer than that to learn languages, anyway. Computer for Fannar. It comes with a tutorial in its use - "people keep designing things to put stuff in context for new daeva, that's one of them."

What language is the tutorial in?