He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
"I think we should have rescheduled what with the war. I keep worrying about all the restaurant food and the ration system is so complicated."
"We had those tickets for a season. You're overthinking it."
"Still. Do you still want to go to the history museum?"
"Hm, let's see if they have reduced rates for afternoon entry."
They check their pocket everythings. It does. Off they go.
They wander through the history museum. They take pictures. They eventually wind up the only people in the Artifacts of 1045-1050 section.
Where Odette and Illia go visible in front of them.
"Excuse us, we're magic aliens who landed in an Oahkar-speaking country and would like to help Tapa and Voa arrive at a more swift closure to this war than would otherwise have happened. And we don't know enough Tapap or Voan to figure out where to start."
"That's what a hallucination would say," says Mr. Purple.
"We don't speak Tapap either!" cries Mrs. Purple.
"But you are from this planet and presumably planned for this vacation? I'm not asking you to personally translate for us or anything, but if you could direct us somewhere helpful?"
"Well no but, like, if there is a tourist bureau or something where they speak Oahkar, going there would probably be more useful to us than continuing to wander around in confusion."
"...We have been made aware of that, we actually got here by accident, we're working on that but it's not something we can just snap our fingers and do yet and fixing the war isn't going to appreciably slow us down."
"I have already been charged by an adorable one-year-old to get the bad guy who poisoned the food. ...I have to say this is all really surreal."