Headshake.

"It's strange we would be the first. Why might that be?"

"Other aliens go planets not get back?"

"Does it take more magic to go back than to leave, or would they have found danger there and died?"

Shrug.

"Do you not know how much magic it would take to go home?"

"Not try."

"You can't figure it out without trying?"

"No."

"Would you expect to be able to go back and forth if you can do it at all?"

"Maybe."

"Why only maybe?"

"Maybe not--connect."

"...connect?"

"Magic--not have words."

"...okay. The best ways to use magic here depend a lot on whether it's just you, but we don't have to figure that out today. What time is it in your time zone, will you need a meal or rest soon?"

"Yes."

"Would you be comfortable staying with the Adaros?"

"Would the Adaros be comfortable?"

"They aren't a hotel, but you don't have enough Oahkar or any other Amentan language to be unobtrusive in a hotel, and they already know about you. They'd make space."

Nod.

"I'll let them know." He does things to his pocket everything.

"Need know talk read Oahkar do things."

"- beg pardon?"

"You want I do things. Need read talk Oakhar, know things not things you want me know."