"Will you come back?"

"Yeah. I don't think I'm going to live here in the long term but I'll definitely visit."

"Okay. Can I hug you?"

"Absolutely."

Alaior hugs her.

Hug!!!

"Go get that bad guy who poisoned the food."

"Okay."

And with that they can finally leave. Odette orients herself directionally, turns the two of them invisible, and flies very fast for Tapa.

It'll still take a few hours.

Calado is not that big. She can get out of it in shortish order.

Buuuuut she's looking for the capital, which is farther away.

Yup. Capital is over there. Lots of skyscrapers.

Caaaan she find important government buildings?

Not if she can't read signs! She could try guessing based on where blues are but there aren't many of them.

Bleh.

...If she follows around a blue and listens carefully for anyone speaking Oahkar?

This blue is going to a restaurant.

Oahkar-speaking tourists over there.

Can she identify their accents?

Republic of Maniten.

Hm, okay. Caste/s?

Purples.

She eavesdrops on them.

"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.

Odette continues following them until they're somewhere with no one else able to see them.

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."

"- ack!" exclaims the wife.

"You see them too?!" cries the husband.