Edie was perusing the latest correspondence from her fork. She still should have been paying enough attention to realize that the door didn't go where it ought before it swung shut and she couldn't sense anyone else anymore, but she wasn't.
After opening and closing the door a couple times to make sure she hadn't just been abducted somehow, she looks around.
And the pretty lights are clearly providing some kind of feedback because he is jotting down notes very quickly and this is still going to take a while.
Pretty lights! If Kayizane knew about Elves and prettiness he might wonder if they were Sufficiently Pretty but he does not. Instead, he takes notes.
"You have a great deal of difference from everyone I've ever tried this on before on a level too subtle for me to understand--Cam seems to be missing some chemical entirely, I can't tell which one--you have a piece of metal in your head..."
"Yeah, that's my brain, we keep them on chips so we can be resurrected."
"Fascinating. Can you do that for other species? Cam also has a piece of metal in his head, in a different location and differently shaped."
"We have not figured out how to do it for humans yet, but we're working on it. Other piece of metal controls our computers."
Chip! Computer! "It's still working on your language so the tutorial might be weirdly phrased."
He tilts his head. "It's not up to Jarizana's standards," he observes, "but it's intelligible. Thank you."
"Once it's trained to react to your thoughts you could help the translator along, we've got one person on that but more's better."
Hey, Matt, can you ask Imliss how safe it is to mention her name to a Kayizane Kalen Zalech -
"Computers can learn just from the written works of your world, but it's slow, so we asked the first person we met from here to help."
"Imliss, Circle's wondering whether it's safe to mention your name to a Kayizane Kalen Zalech-"
"Question is whether he might know who you are - person they met at the university -"
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