"I'm a human. I've never heard of any of those."

He blinks at the book, tilts his head a bit, and then slowly says, "I've never heard of a human either."

Apparently it does pronunciation of unfamiliar words.

"Humans are the most populous and widespread species in the galaxy. What sort of backwater planet are you even from?"

"The– galaxy? Um, we've got some space travel but no colonization yet?"

"A survey will find you sooner or later, then. Let me see that book for a minute, I want to start training my datapad on your language." She gives him a moment to read that, then floats the book over to her.

He seems rather startled when she floats it over! "Um."

"You can have it back after I get these pages scanned in." Which she proceeds to do.

He can't actually understand her, on account of not having the book! "What the hell is that?" he asks. "Do you have telekinesis?"

She floats the book back to him. Her datapad is chewing on the examples provided.

"...Have you never met a Force-user before?"

"What. The hell. Is the Force."

He then remembers to hold the book out to her, since she probably doesn't have his language translated yet.

Not yet, no.

"Energy field generated by living things, present throughout the galaxy, a gifted few individuals can manipulate it to various advantages? Sound familiar at all?"

"Nnno? I'd think you're maybe some weirdo talking about lumen but, um, that doesn't do telekinesis."

She can tell that lumen is– person-made light? Apparently? The book lets her know that much.

"Just light? Sounds kind of useless. I may have to revise my estimate on how far away you're from if you don't know the Force. It's been part of galactic culture since prehistory."

"That's kinda the whole point of lumen, yeah!" he says. "Light! Blobs or not-so-blobs of light or dark or whatever! You can do that, right?"

"...Not directly. I stand by my assessment of uselessness."

"It is a little bit useless, yeah, especially with technology! But you can do pretty pictures," see the pretty picture of a beach that he just made – it's slightly cartoonish but it's not that bad, "or you can write things," see the presumably-a-word in his language, "or you can phoss someone." See as he makes himself glow.

Phossing is apparently where you cover someone with lumen, or try to make it appear intersected with them. It's also kinda rude if you do it to other people. Is not particularly useful. The word is apparently his name, and is also recorded in the book with a note attached saying that it's the word hanging between them.

"Are you sure you don't have it?"

What an extraordinarily useful book. What a suspiciously useful book.

"Quite. Rest assured, I find your never having heard of the Force equally bizarre."

But the book is so nice! It innocently glowed when she encountered someone speaking a foreign language, and now it's helping to translate words and give her the context in a totally not-weird way! (It's totally weird.)

"Yeah," he says. "Um. Anyway. Where is this and how did I get here? Any idea?"

"I saw an odd reflection in a glass case and had a moment of vertigo, and when I looked up, there was no one else around and the room I was in lead out here. This is not where it was to begin with. I have no idea how you arrived here, but it was quite sudden on this end."

"I was looking at my phone," he says. "It is likewise slightly shiny and I also felt off-balance. Which is– possibly related. Since we both had that."

"Seems likely, yes. It goes no distance towards actually explaining the phenomenon, but it is probably connected."

"Okay, well– how long have you been here? Has anything interesting happened other than, you know, mysterious appearance of you and now me and also, yeah, the shiny book, is that a Force thing, or…?"

"The shiny book is not a Force thing. It was here when I got here, but only started glowing after you did. The woods are empty of higher life-forms except for one extraordinarily stupid herbivore. And the building I arrived in disappeared when I turned my back on it."

"… I have no idea how a building could just disappear, but then again I have no idea how I'd just get mysteriously teleported here, so– okay. Weird place with a helpful, glowing translation book."

Has anyone been watching the sky? Because apparently it's suddenly decided that it doesn't like its setting of 'blue' and instead prefers to now be 'midnight'.