It… seems like Elleira's arm might be glowing a very little bit white?

"Uh, that looks like you have a very weak bit of aura around your arm but I have no idea how that would affect things."

"Try one that's easier to test. Red, maybe."

So she tries flaring red and pushing it onto Elleira!

… Elleira probably notices the mental effort that Maya was talking about. It's kinda distracting.

"I can feel this one working. Say something in your native language?"

She does! Elleira gets a vague idea that it's… redundant.

"Not getting a clear sense of it."

"I said, 'this is a sentence.'"

She repeats it in her native language, and Elleira can tell that they seem to be approximately the same level of redundant, but she can't get much of a better idea of it.

There is a very slight red glow around Elleira.

"It doesn't seem to be working as well as the sparks. It may take practice, or the auras may just be different levels of sharable."

"Yeah, I don't know," she says. "Anyway – sparks seems to work so do you want to go see the basement or the roof garden thing?"

"Start with the roof," she decides.

So she moves closer to the door, makes sure she has a solid grip on Elleira, flares sparks, and floats out into the cylinder.

Then they go down. There are, fortunately, no hiccups in the movement.

Fortunate indeed. It looks like quite a long way to the bottom.

It is! It's quite a long way. And they would probably squish if they fell it.

But then they are at the door and Maya opens it and drags Elleira through and they are on a very nice roof garden with lots of pretty flowers around the edge and there is– a weird amber bubble around the building.

Elleira goes to check out the bubble.

The bubble: is quite a distance away from the building itself. It's amber, as mentioned before, and semi-transparent, though outside the bubble there doesn't really appear to be much.

If she walks over to the edge of the building, she will be able to see that the building is quite tall – at least twenty storeys so – and there is concrete below, as well as a path from the front of the building away over to the edge of the bubble, up until it abruptly stops.

"Huh, weird," says Maya, from right beside her.

"It looks like some kind of environmental containment field."

Maya flares her aura red and asks Elleira to repeat herself. "Should probably get in the habit of keeping this on."

She does so, and adds: "At least while the Helpful Sign Language Boys are not around."

Maya laughs. "Thario's kinda useful for that, isn't he?"

"That and testing strange possibly-harmful artifacts."

"I feel like that's a story?" she says, looking around at some of the plants.

"I am risk-averse, and he is very, mm, suggestible? It's worked out well for me so far."

"Suggestible?" she says, tilting her head a bit. "Mm, yeah, I can see it."

"He's also not that good at learning from experience, most of the things he's touched have not had pleasant effects."

She shrugs. "Maybe he likes testing new things? Or was trying to be nice, I dunno." She makes a bit of a face. "He seems like he might be nice."