"Yes. Eat a little, see if the food is safe, Liars on Endorë this could eat but maybe you are different."

"Thank you."

She eats a little.

"It's good."

"That's good. As much as you want, then."

She raises her eyebrows a little - really? - but she thanks him again and eats. 

He goes over to the balcony and starts singing.

She is very quiet and listens attentively.

They sing where she's from. People probably sing everywhere. She hasn't heard anyone sing like that. Not for a really long time, anyway, too long for her to be confident in any comparisons she might make.

When she hasn't touched the food in a while he stops singing and says "do you want to teach us more, or sleep?"

She really wants to sleep and really wants to be able to say complicated things and really wants to know what is going on.

"I want to be helpful?"

"We want language, know who you are, know how you got there. If too much for before sleep, sleep, and then learn more later."

She bites her lip, thinking.

"I want to know more about this place. But I should probably sleep. At home they would make me sleep."

"Do you need to be made to sleep?"

She makes a face and shakes her head. "No. Thank you. I can sleep."

"All right. This way."

This room, too, has a balcony looking out on the courtyard. It also has a bed, a dresser, a large glass screen and a bathroom.

This is... really weirdly nice and spacious and weird.

She thinks about asking him whether the whole thing is for her, but obviously it's for her, so she just thanks him and goes inside and waits to see if they're going to let her be alone.

Yep, they leave.

They probably have cameras. They probably don't have psyons, they wouldn't be putting this much effort into the language thing if they could read her mind. That's something. 

She washes herself off in the bathroom and tries to sleep in the bed. It's big and weird and entirely too comfortable, and she finds herself silently crying into the pillow about how everyone here has been nice and if she goes home house Tellari might kill her, and how if she doesn't she's never going to see Taz and Ves again, and she doesn't even want to think about that. But she's going to need to sleep at some point if she wants to be helpful, and she does.

She grabs some bedding and curls up in the far corner of the room where nothing can sneak up behind her, even as she tells herself that's stupid and that literally anyone could sneak up on her while she was sleeping, and probably they wouldn't need to sneak up on her anyway because she's outgunned a million to one and really doesn't have any other options.

And there she sleeps.

They do have cameras, and no one bothers her while she's asleep. 

    "Seems human."

      "Uh huh. And how'd she get there -"

    "Accident of some kind. Maybe tomorrow we'll have the vocabulary to figure it out."

       "A Maia could seem human as long as they wanted."

"No," Curufin says, "that's misleadingly phrased. There exists a Maia or two who could seem human-with-unfamiliar-languages as long as they wanted. But not many of them. And playing games with us aboard your ship is honestly where I'd want a Maia capable of that."

    " - sure, sir."

"Get the whole story, then we'll make our decisions."

She wakes up four hours later on her own, with no idea what time it is. She washes her face off in the bathroom and then looks out over the balcony.

Pretty. Why is everything here so pretty.

Some people are out on their balconies singing. 

The closet has uniforms, not in her size.

It doesn't occur to her to change clothes. These are her clothes.

...Technically they're not her clothes, but they're the closest thing she has, and she's going to keep them.

About twenty minutes after she wakes up someone brings in breakfast.

She thanks the person who brings it, and manages to restrain herself from asking permission to eat (though she spends about half a minute thinking about it). She instead asks when they're planning to continue where they left off yesterday.

She eats.

"Ettelië can come in to learn with you again once you are done eating."

She eats quickly, and then is ready to continue.

Imrainai has a bunch of questions. She doesn't need to ask them now, but she would like to know whether she should try to ask some of them, or whether what they are doing now is more important and she should wait.

She can totally wait if she should wait.

"You can try to ask questions, that is good."