"I could see how that would get annoying. ...The bacon plant. Needs to be watered. That's incongruous."

"Why's that incongruous?"

"It's a bacon plant! It should be able to sustain itself in a vacuum, it's a freaking shrub that grows strips of bacon!"

"Why does that matter to how it should be able to sustain itself?"

"Because if you can make a bacon plant at all why should it have any of the other limitations that plants have like needing water?"

"We don't know anything about how the bacon plant was made!"

"I know, I know, I'm sure it makes sense somehow, but it's just silly."

"The bacon plant is kind of silly. But very tasty."

"I am glad that you have had it to keep you company in this lonesome time."

Tiro starts giggling helplessly.

Wag wag.

Heeeeeeeeeeee.

"So I did a survey of the area overnight and it is very dried up and rather flat," Cam says. "I can put in a mountain range! I have been designing a lovely mountain range, want to see?"

"Yes! Please teach me all about designing mountain ranges!"

So Cam walks him through the process - he has all kinds of fun demonic software for designing mountain ranges and such - and here is how it can be shaped and here is what it will look like if he puts a different composition of rocks in it and then they slide and here is how tall it will have to be to have snow caps once there's more general moisture around and here are plants that could go on the mountains!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Tiro is so excited about his mountains. He has mountain-related aesthetic opinions! Trees are good! Snow is good! Attractive rocks are good!

"I mean, do you want it to look naturalistic or do you want me to get fancy..."

"How about... mostly naturalistic, with occasional departures into fancy?"

"Scattered around, or, like, Mount Fancy in the middle of the Naturalistic Mountains?"

"Well, what does your mountain simulator think about those options?"

"Oh, let's see -"

Cam dabs flourishes scattered around in the range - high caldera lake with unreasonably pretty waterfalls, vein of bright quartz, copse of excessively shapely trees, salt terraces, basalt columns - displays the result and pans around - and then shuffles things around until it's all crowded onto one mountain.

"...As much as I love Mount Fancy, I think I like them better scattered," says Tiro. If he had a tail he would be wagging it. "This is going to be such a great mountain range."

"I think so too!" Cam reverts to the scattered version. Adds in some more things. Cave system! Wildflowers! Cliffy parts!

Tiro admires the design and maybe makes quiet 'eeeeeeeeee' sounds.

"Are you going to want a house on here? Easier to know going in if I am going to want to put a house foundation."