And after she came all this way to see it. How rude.

She reaches out soothingly with the Force. Calm down, creature. There's no reason to be scared. Everything is perfectly normal and not scary at all.

It seems to be calmed! It doesn't, however, seem to know what to do with the fact that it suddenly finds itself calmed, so it then gets slightly confused, and it looks around for anything in the vicinity, and then it decides to chew on a plant at the base of a tree.

Does she decide to get closer?

She does! What's this thing look like?

Small! Sort of like a fox in size, possibly looks like a red panda if she's ever seen one of those. It's not quite either, though, and it's probably not a species she recognizes.

It seems to be somewhat happily chewing on the plant at the base of the tree though, taking no notice of her appearing.

Yeah, she has no idea what that is.

...What happens if she plants the suggestion it should go home in its brain? Tired, night falling, find safety, shelter.

It decides to go back in the direction it came from!

… Then after a short distance it seems to get a little confused.

Go home, little creature. Home. Surely you know what home is.

It seems to be looking around in this small area here for something, but there doesn't appear to be anything obvious.

It tries climbing a tree? Looks around up there a bit? Still seems confused, and comes down after a short while anyway.

Does it... not understand the concept of home? Elleira doesn't think that should be possible. She gives up on poking it.

The animal will… go back to eating some plants, in that case?

There still doesn't seem to be anything else around.

Whatever. She'll go back the archives, then. She's pretty sure she remembers the way.

She can find her way back out of the forest and over to the hut just fine.

The archive, though. Well. That seems not to be quite where she left it. Is she sure she didn't– misplace it or something?

No, this is definitely where she left it.

Why. Why this place. With its lack of anything interesting, its one three-page weird-ass book, its incredibly dumb single animal. Why.

Incredibly dumb single animal? … Well, that's probably fair.

You know what's weird, though? Someone seems to have appeared about halfway to the edge of her range.

They seem humanoid. Relatively tall. Probably quite intelligent, seeing as they're humanoid.

Also quite surprised, if she can tell that.

A person! How exciting! Maybe they will know something about this place. Or provide some amusement value, at least. She heads personwards.

Person: doesn't seem to be moving much. They're very surprised and very confused, though.

When she gets close, after walking around a couple– rather large trees, she'll be able to see that it's a male humanoid! He's rather tall. Also has slightly pointy ears.

He's looking at his phone and is quite confused. He's also facing away from her, but notices when she gets near and turns to face her. His eyes are very purple. It seems like the sclera is purple, actually, and she can't see an iris from where she is.

He seems quite startled! And then starts talking rather rapidly. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to speak her language, as is indicated by the fact she can't understand a word he says to her.

Great. And she doesn't recognize his species either. Obviously near-human, there aren't that many of those.

"Do you speak Basic? What about Huttese?" she asks, rummaging through her pouch for her datapad. Please let her still have that translation program on it...

From the way he responds to that – that is to say, unintelligibly – it would appear not.

Remember that book from earlier, though? The one she took from the hut?

Apparently it's decided it's a good time to start glowing.

She is somehow simultaneously surprised and utterly not. She pulls it out. Okay book, why are you glowing now.

The words at the front seem to be slightly, very slightly blurry. Still present, though.

If she flips to the back – which, you know, happens whether she wants it to or not, though it'll look like a total accident – she'll see that what she's said has been transcribed! There also seem to be other words around it, perfectly intelligible to her, that seem to be what the other boy has said.

They are likewise slightly blurry.

New line: Why is that book glowing.

This place. Why this place.

"Apparently the book will take care of translation for us. How are you at picking up languages?" She tosses the book to the new arrival.

He catches it! And looks at it, rather confused, but then it happens to fall open to the back of the book again, he looks at the text, and he frowns in confusion.

"I'm pretty good at it?" he says, walking closer to allow the book to be visible to them both. "Thario, by the way."

"Good. This place is really strange, and I'm pretty sure any particular conception of 'normal' you may have is going to apply only loosely. Where are you from, and what species are you?"

"I'm from Rhunya. It's a city in Kerune? And you probably have no idea what that is – it's a country – because you don't seem to be a Rhune or a Luna or a Thamar? I'm a Rhune." Blink. "Um, what are you?"