"What are your names?" asks Maya of Thario and Blue. "You didn't actually introduce yourselves."

"Thario," says Thario, looking at the building and frowning a bit.

"Blue," says Blue, then he looks over at Thario. "Would you just stop being so surprised by things, for fuck's sake. You know this place doesn't care about geography, right?"

Eyeroll.

Thario just decides to continue walking, in that case.

Oh, and his keriol can now be found around his shoulders.

"Um," says Maya. "First of all, why do you have a thing around your shoulders, and second of all, when did it get there because it wasn't there just a moment ago."

"Uh–?" he starts, then looks at his shoulders. "It's a keriol, it's my weird soul animal that this place decided to give me, and I– don't know what you mean with the last bit?"

Blue can also now be found with a keriol around his shoulders! "Yeah, seconded, what do you mean?"

"Y–" she starts, then tilts her head and squints a little. To Elleira: "They… both seem to have a keriol wrapped over their shoulders. Right?"

"...Yes? He got his the same place I got mine." She gestures towards her feet.

There is a largish yellow-and-black lizard there.

"… That was not there just a minute ago," says Maya, and Elleira can tell that it sounds quite true. "I am pretty sure of this." Also true.

Blue gives Maya a bit of a mistrustful look.

"Right."

She shrugs. "Well, I don't have one as far as I know and I'm pretty sure you guys were missing yours, but… I dunno. Um. Were you guys going for the building or–?"

"Yes, we were."

"Okay, so… should we continue that way? We can talk– while we do it," she says, then mutters in English.

"I have a translation thing," says Thario. "I can translate if you just want to speak something else?"

Huh. That's quite helpful of him. "Sure, sounds good," she says in English.

And so he continues to translate with totally made up sign language that still somehow means what he wants it to. Or, rather, it's not made up, because it follows a pattern and he does it instinctively, but it doesn't seem to be a sign language that any of them would otherwise recognize, were they to know sign language.

Walking towards the buildings.

There is: a whole lot of nothing on the way, except for the continued appearance of various small (and less small) animals.

There is in fact a bunny or two.

Not for very long.

Maya notices this and asks somewhat incredulously, "Did a bunny kill your firstborn or something?"

"One bit me and I was in horrible searing pain for quite some time. It still hasn't fully subsided."