And in surprisingly short order: helicopter!

They stay in the tractor and wait for it to land.

The helicopter lands. A grey hops out and talks to the other greys. A yellow approaches the tractor.

"Hello."

"Hello! I'm Mosha Amkape. What should we call you?"

"This is Deskyl and I'm DZ-twelve-Q, DZ for short."

"It's a pleasure to meet you. Can I answer any questions for you before we get in the helicopter?"

"We've only been here a few days, we don't know very much yet."

"We'll be happy to catch you up on anything you need to know. The trip back in will take about twenty minutes."

"All right."

"We'll need a place to stay as soon as possible - Deskyl is recovering from an injury and should be resting as much as she can."

"Of course - what kind of facilities does she need -"

They confer.

"She's used to having a suite with a work room and an exercise room of her own; the exercise room is more important."

"That can definitely be arranged." Mosha taps her pocket everything. "Any specific equipment - that we might have -"

"Not for now-" Deskyl interrupts her. "She'll want a sparring partner, so she doesn't get out of practice, she says. For - I don't have the word - like a knife, but long."

"Sword. Okay. We can find someone who knows how to swordfight."

Nod. "And whatever information is available on the spacecraft you already have - she is an engineer, but spaceships aren't her specialty, she's going to have to re-invent some of it."

"We've got moon shuttles, she can have everything we've got on those for sure."

"Okay."

More signing.

"That should be fine, then."

"Great. If you'll follow me?"

And to helicopter.

To the helicopter. (Deskyl continues to be grumpy and suspicious, but gets on without complaint.)

And the helicopter rises into the air and takes them farther into Tapa.

Deskyl and DZ sign to each other, intermittently. Deskyl seems tenser and more withdrawn as the flight proceeds.

The cities are tall and full. Trains run between them. Mosha provides color commentary on what towns they're passing over.

Eventually they land on a helipad on top of a skyscraper in the downtown of a big city.

When the helicopter lands, Deskyl closes her eyes for a moment, and then seems less, and slightly differently, tense - wary, rather than pained.

She and DZ follow their guide off the helicopter.

Their guide says, "We've gotten you a hotel suite just across the street. They don't have a helipad but we can take the skybridge."

The skybridge is several floors down by elevator and goes from the capitol building's balcony to the hotel's secondary reception room on the fortieth story.