Beka is not sure what she was expecting as a result of walking into a snake monster but an Elf city would have been very low on a list of possibilities if someone had jumbled a lot of random words together into place-phrases and had her rank them. "Elf city" would probably have been under "spider void" and above "grape juice ocean". And yet here she is.
"Maybe Melkor is hoping to assassinate us of confusion," he mutters. "Who's Makel Alasi?"
"He's a singer." Looks like a human or whatever she is version of Macalaurë. Green hair.
That is what she has been saying this entire time and why is she NAKED AND CHAINED TO A WALL.
You're restrained in case you try to kill us, which is something that we are wary of because you appeared in a fortress in the middle of a war. We took your clothes in case they were magical or concealing weapons but we can get you new ones if you're cold or something.
...I think maybe this is a cultural difference?
He orders her brought clothes.
She puts on clothes to the extent she can while chained to a wall. Is there some reason they don't just have, like, cells.
Until Beka appeared the problem never came up. Elves can't safely be imprisoned at all.
...but chains, those they have? She is imprisoned by badly written telepathic aliens one of whom looks like Grey Her and one of whom looks like Makel Alasi photoshopped weird.
We interrogate orcs sometimes. We didn't ask for you to randomly appear in our city, you know.
She can't, she was away too much when the baby was born, had to join the army to make money for the credit. She supposes telepathic aliens probably do not report directly to Tapai population control.
Many of those words did not make any sense and osanwë usually suffices to bridge vocabulary gaps. Uh. I'm very sorry that you can't.
Well they probably haven't heard of Tapa any more than she's heard of Beleriand. Not sure what else would be confusing.