"All right."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. I hope we can do it."

"Do you need to know anything else or should I go get sleep?"

"I think we'll be okay. Good night."

"Good night. Thank you."

She goes and crashes elsewhere in the house.

Deskyl sleeps through the night; DZ reads.

In the morning Peka is obliged to pack up and move out before she has a chance to say goodbye.

And Deskyl and DZ head for Tapa in a pair of abandoned tractors.

There's a checkpoint they'd have to pass to cross the border; it's manned, so Deskyl can tell in advance.

Deskyl calls a stop when it comes into range, and directs Daisy to join her in her tractor; it's a tight fit, but better than leaving her vulnerable. Then they approach the checkpoint.

There are greys there in uniform. They are suspicious of the tractor. "Stop!"

She stops, signs stay behind me, and dismounts the tractor; DZ follows.

The greys are confused about the brown hair and about the robot.

"State your business!"

There's a pause, and then Deskyl signs to Daisy.

"We were told to come this way, sir - Master Deskyl is an engineer, she might be able to build you a spaceship."

"- who told you to come here?"

("- hair's brown -"

"Could be dye."

"Robot. Literal sign language robot. Doesn't have room for a person in it to be faking."

"- yeah that part I don't know."

"The hell kind of accent is that though? Almost red."

"Do I look like I know accents? Maybe somewhere downcountry.")

"A group of greys came through the town we started in. We were hiding, but their red found us and sent us here."

("We'd have got a report like that -"

"Sure, if the lazy piece of shit bothered.")

"We're going to have to contact our superiors about this."

"All right."

Greys contact superiors and escalate up.

"Have you got anything besides one of you being a robot to prove that you're aliens -"

DZ steps forward so Deskyl can see her sign; when she's returned to her position, Deskyl covers her arm with a sleeve of lightning.

("Whoa."

"I've seen better special effects."

"This isn't a movie, you idiot.")

"They're gonna send you a helicopter."

"All right."

She signs to Deskyl again and they return to the tractor.

"Thank you in advance for the spaceship!" calls a grey.

Yeah, all right.