He sighs. "Everything in Warp is so important and so busy and I thought I'd like that a lot but I'm not especially good at any of it, even the inventing, I have grownup alts who don't have to catch up on everything, and the things we actually need are things I could do if I were a demon and I could learn so many languages so fast -"

"It's not really learning them like it is when you learn one the long way, they just sort of - happen. Anyway, the impression I've gotten from Boots is that you usually catch Allspeak glitches first and you're a useful researcher."

Cling. "Boots is great. She loves me and she wasn't sure if she'd stop if I grew up and did the bad things but I didn't, we're the lucky world, no bad things happened, and I'm still not good enough to be happy and I'm scared I just can't be."

...hug.

"I l-l-like my Materia family and they all just want me to be safe and I love my parents and they just want me to be safe and Boots - I think Boots wants me to be me more than she wants me to be safe and I want to matter and be powerful and understand everything and fix everything and be good enough -"

Cam has absolutely no idea what to do with this neurotic tiny genius but he can put a wing around him for added hug layering?

This will distract him back on track on convincing Cam that he wants wings, that's something.

"Maybe you should ask Boots what she thinks, in case there is some very good reason not to have them that I'm not thinking of."

"Okay.

Thank you very much for coming. I know you're really busy."

"I try to avoid being busy literally all the time, it's not good for me."

Squeeze. "I'm sorry I w-w-wasn't smart enough - didn't get interdimensional travel quicker -"

"- it's not your fault, not at all."

"Yeah it is! If not for the stupid stupid timeslide I could have had it quicker - I didn't even notice until Bella landed -"

"Kib only noticed it because he could compare it against his dreams, it's apparently really subtle."

"I should go home and tell Boots sorry."

"Sorry for what?"

"Running away and not telling anyone where I was and scaring her?"

"She'd probably appreciate that."

He curls up against Cam's wing. 

It's a very snuggly wing.

And eventually he pops them both to the spot in Revelation for teleporters and then he tries to use his wizardry teleport to go to Bella but it doesn't work and he sniffles and makes a surprised noise and uses his sorcery one instead and it doesn't end up mattering because Boots is right where he expected her.

And Cam sets the smol down.

"- are you okay? What happened?"

"Nothing happened I was just feeling really sad and hopeless and Cam wasn't doing any of the unhelpful reactions so I just. Told him about it. And then I figured out I should come say sorry for scaring you."

Boots scoops him up. "It's okay, I found you soon enough and you were fine after all -" Squeeze. "What are you feeling sad about?"