"Huh. Don't think those work in our dimension, if there are books referencing it someone would have tried."

"I mean, they're really frustrating to perform until you have the hang of then and then they are merely somewhat frustrating, but yeah, probably."

And they'll spend a few more days quietly reading the works of the new world.

And: Here is the world!

Cam locates the canal place and makes a drone down there and presently their computers can pronounce Marlese.

Lovely. Drone finding anything else they didn't expect?

"........the animals talk."

"...well. 

We should probably not kill any animals, between them being people and the untranslatable bad thing."

"Yep. I mean, I don't see why we would have done that anyway but yep."

"People who aren't you kill animals to eat sometimes," Maitimo says with a snort. "Does this mean that we could have the drone start chatting and it would just be assumed to be a local talking animal."

"Maybe, unless the computer translation's just not very good."

"Perhaps," Findekáno says, "people will assume it's a foreign bird."

"Possibly. Do you want me to fly this drone to the palace and have it investigate the royalty situation?"

"Sounds reasonable."

So Cam flies the bird (it looks like a small crane) palaceward.

It's not an Elf-pretty palace, but it's perfectly serviceable, very large, surrounded by canals and gardens. 

...a place with talking animals prooooobably won't just let a random bird fly in and look around. What happens if he lands the crane by the gates? Well, what happens is the guard wants to know if the crane speaks Marlese, which Cam answers by saying "tolerably well", and then the guard asks what it wants, and the crane says it is foreign and would like to meet the local royalty if that is at all possible because it thinks they will find what it has to say interesting, and the guard sends a messenger to ask the King if he wants to entertain a random familiar today.

The King (!) and his wife got through most of the items on their seven-page list not within a day of their coronation but within a month, at least, and he's still busy but Iobel's going to be delighted that there's some country using crane familiar ambassadors and he can clear an hour, certainly, please extend him our welcome.

So in goes the crane drone!

"Um!" says Cam to the Elves when he gets a clear look at the King.

The Elves look up and come over to see.

Cam turns the display around.

Maitimo blinks. At someone who looks exactly like him, albeit human and with shorter hair. "...well. 

Could you pull up a royal family tree or something?"

"Maybe -" He fishes around for anything matching that description that he can identify specifically enough. "You want to do the talking in case the resemblance is not superficial? And, like, you were supposed to be along for diplomatic purposes anyway... ah -" He produces a family tree.

"If the resemblance isn't superficial he won't be easy to offend or hard to work with," Maitimo says, but he commandeers the console. "Hello," he says. "Thank you for your time. We said we're from another country; it is a country in another world. We'd like to share the magic and technology of our civilization with yours, and learn about you. Where would you have us land the starship?"

Findekáno looks at the family tree. "You're married," he says to Maitimo. "And I think the rest of us exist - look at the names, that's uncannny..."

"Let us come up with terminology that doesn't involve referring to people we're not talking to in the second person, that's bewildering enough when it's only forks and not whatever this is," Cam says.

"Mitros, the King, is the eldest of seven, his next brother's name is Makarial," Findekáno says. "He has a cousin Finankar. Can you do models of everyone's faces in plastic or something..."

Mitros beams with delight and fascination. He asks an advisor to get the Queen, please. He leans forward and suggests to the crane a location to land a starship.