"Hey, is this water drinkable, it's been hot out."

"Pretty sure it is, here—" and he gestures, and the spring heaves itself up into a charming little fountain, made of rough stone with a clear pool spilling a tidy little waterfall into a slightly bigger pool which pours in turn into a little stream flowing down the hill.

"Thanks!" Slurp.

He makes a tree bend itself into the shape of a chair and sprawls in it, contemplating the planet as he extends his senses. Ocean, ocean, ocean, "—wow, what the fuck happened there?"

"...couldn't begin to tell you."

...he laughs a little. "There's, uh... something weird, all the way around the planet from us. It looks like there might've been a continent there once, but now it's mostly just a really big hole that goes almost right down to the magma, full of ocean."

"I cannot explain that based on my background understanding of spherical solid planets. Unless it's actually just an ocean. What do you mean looks like there might've been a continent?"

"Like... imagine a continent, right, and now imagine something exploded real hard right near the middle, so now there's still some continent around the edges but it's mostly hole?"

"A crater?"

"Yeah, I guess that's the word. A really big one."

"Ocean crater hogging all the water, okay. How does your language thing work?"

"I know a whole lot of languages and it's like I've known them all my life but that doesn't actually make me any better at using them than the one I really have known all my life. And I think I learn them as soon as I'm in the same world as somebody who speaks one - I think yours showed up while I was lying at the bottom of a hill being miserable."

"Both of 'em?"

"I guess? What's the other one?"

"Gatetalk? Sounds like this."

"Oh, yeah, that one too then."

"Neato. I've only got tidbits of the rest - uh - how much does this cost -?"

"I vaguely feel like I might've heard that somewhere before even though I'm pretty sure I haven't? And I dunno what it means."

"'How much does this cost', and I have numbers in that one too."

"I guess you don't know enough of it for the language magic to pick it up."

"Wonder what the cutoff is."

"Dunno. Guess you could bring people here who know different languages but not very well and see which ones I get, but that sounds boring to do more than like twice."

"It'll happen incidentally anyway if you hang out here even if we eat this planet. I dunno if you'd rather terraform it but we kinda need a lot of space."

"Arguing with the desert was pretty fun. How much is a lot?"

"Billion people. I dunno if your terraforming also does, like, natural resources besides water and dirt and plants? We'll want metal and things like that, I don't have a complete index of the things like that off the top of my head though. Seems like the kind of thing that... fiends might have eaten... or whatever."