Cam spends most of the rest of the trip reading his local books and occasionally playing violin, although he does emerge from his cabin to feed Mark and the pilot and talk to the latter about flight schools.

He also eventually reads enough things with illustrations in them to have a loose sense of the borders of fashion; he makes Mark shield nets (one with and one without a hood) and an outfit that is itself heavy enough to conceal the stiffness, complete with gloves.