This is adorable. And excellent vocabulary practice!

"Do you want anything to eat?" Alaior's mother asks the aliens. "It's nearly Alaior's bedtime."

"Oh--yes, please."

Alaior goes off to bed and aliens are given food.

It is odd but tasty. And then aliens are ready to crash too.

There are rooms for them! They look like someone else usually lives there but has cleared out and the sheets are fresh.

...Okay.

Aliens crash for the night.

In the morning Alaior is up before them and waiting outside Odette's room with books to ambush her.

Awesome. Odette will happily spend indefinite amounts of time reading with Alaior.

They are called to breakfast but not before Alaior has read to her about a librarian who finds the right books for assorted mythical creatures.

Odette is delighted.

After breakfast: "Usually I have school but I'm staying home while you are here."

"Oh. ...Is that good or bad?"

"It is good! I am going to read you all my books."

"Okay!"

Alaior has a lot of books. A lot of them are about yellows, presumably to represent the household caste (architects, accountants, programmers, photographers, sometimes a yellow house spouse or child if the plot doesn't allow them to have a day job) but she also has grey knights and dancers, and green artists and scientists and musicians, and purple Miscellaneous Villagers and chefs and builders and drivers and farmers and workers and such, and orange doctors and teachers, and blue princesses and generally important people. Alaior favors fantasy but there are slice of life and nonfiction kids' books too (How Trains Go, Computers Are Yellow!, Farmers Around The World, Going To A Moon).

Illia is fascinated by How Trains Go and Computers Are Yellow!

"Wait, you have multiple moons?"

"Yeah."

"Our planet has one moon."

"That sounds boring."

"Why?"

"Cause you can't have a song with their names."

"We have songs about lots of things!"

"But not about moon names!"