"Sure. The author translated it into English himself but you will have to work around some dialect difference, of course." Seven hundred page book. It appears to be literally titled The Seven Hundred Page Book.

"Thank you!"

She's still pacing.  "I do want to help Andrew's people.  If there's a way to do it that's not incredibly destructive."

Cam's current estimation is that involving Tally with things increases the risk of incredible destruction considerably but there's not really a constructive way to say that.

"It'll be hard to give them things that they definitely won't try to use to attack other tribes," she assesses.  "I don't know how they'll react if they know you're helping all of them.  It would almost be better to separate them in some way, but seems wrong to make their world even smaller, and they probably won't like it if you move them, even if you have somewhere to put them.  ...You probably have a better shot at helping the littlies; they were way less scared of me..."

"I was planning to start with feeding them? Clean water? Maybe replacing some of their teeth, the teeth situation looked dire."

"It so is.  They still might take a feast as an occasion to raid other camps."

"Then they can fall over and have a nap, I guess."

Nod.

"And I can shop around camp to camp, they probably have distinct cultures and maybe one of 'em is nicer."

"That would be icy.  It still might be best to start with Andrew's, since he already has some exposure to the concept that 'the gods' are fakes.  Are you planning to keep the mask on?"

"No, I just sorta forgot it was there." He takes it off.

It unsticks from his face cooperatively.

Zane has been flipping around in the book.  "I bet all the research of the only Maddy I know isn't encrypted?"

"Okay, what's that relevant to?"

"She's the one who developed the cure."

"Keen." Let's have that then.

Yeahhhh there's a lot here and he can just read it without any trouble.  The most recent stuff is a combination of documentation for several different kinds of nanos and a case study on one F. Vane.

"Either of you know F. Vane?"

"That's Fausto."

"The Smokies just kidnapped him."

"...does he need rescuing?"

"...Probably," says Tally, at the same moment Zane says, "Probably not."

Cam glances between them quizzically.