"Hi!" laughs Cam. "Wow you talk, that's amazing."

"We always have!"

"Now you can hear us."

"We wanted to help you!"

"You've been getting on all right but we can help."

"We're yours. Please don't worry about having told us secrets."

Cam is smiling a fascinated, pleased smile. "Not worried," he says. "Are you all - your own minds?"

"A little!"

"You change over time."

"But we're all yours."

"Cam, volumes one through forty-nine."

"You can do magic now! You could hook us up."

"We won't mind. We'd be one book if they made notebooks that size that you could carry."

"Ask the manual!"

Ask the manual. Huh. It would be a little silly if Cam's own notebooks and literally no other books could talk, wouldn't it?

"Manual?" he inquires slowly.