Margaret is on her way to work, walking instead of flying today so she can drink her coffee without spilling it, when she sees the cryptid. She's a truly far-out one, no limbs to speak of, just a long snaky body with a mirror for a face. Margaret smiles at her and goes to walk on by, but the cryptid slithers right at her all of a sudden and--hits?--Margaret with the giant mirror. Except she doesn't experience getting whacked with a sheet of glass.
"The danger sense is specific to me, but the few seconds of precog would probably pick up on depressurization unless it's surprisingly non-obvious visually. And I'd be in as much danger from losing air as anyone else."
"Our sensors are pretty fast at picking it up, but a few extra seconds could still save lives - we might just put you on the bridge or medbay, which are some of the riskier places to lose pressure, with a specialized alert feed for pressure losses, and an ability to pre-alert the system."
"That sounds like a good plan. Also, I should mention, if I'm ever likely to need to wear a spacesuit I should sort something out in advance. I don't think I know enough about spacesuits to make one myself by magic, and if I just wear a random one I haven't decorated I'll have next to no powers except the shapeshifting. I might be able to modify one to be pretty and have room for my wings and then put it back to normal afterward."
"Modern spacesuits are pretty simple, and are usually actually wearable under clothes. I can have someone from my crew who knows how they work sit down with you?"
"That would be great, thanks. If they're that small I can probably come up with something that lets me use all my magic without modifying the suit much if at all."
She nods. "A bigger problem might be the helmet, but current designs can snap into place as they're needed, and I expect you could manage something appropriately aesthetic."
"Probably, yeah. Especially if it's just a clear shell and doesn't have a lot of stuff built into it."
"Usually any air filters are around the base, since they don't fold away as easily as the head-piece."
"That makes sense. I should be fine, then."
She looks at Edna. "Do you have a spacesuit too? I haven't seen any of your species before, but if there are a lot of you I would assume they've figured it out."
"Her species isn't usually space faring, but there's enough who've gotten attached to spacers that you can buy suits for them. Expensively, but it turns out piracy pays well."
"Cool. How does the whole telepathy-empathy thing work, exactly, are you translating for her?"
"Full telepathy I think only works with other treecats. She can sense human emotions, though, and since I'm bonded to her I can get an echo of hers. No one's managed to develop a tree-cat compatible sign language, though, so mostly we work by knowing each other and body language."
"Can she write stuff down?" It's not obvious to Margaret either way whether Edna can actually hold a pencil.
"Some things, but most screens aren't designed for her hands, and she'd have to learn to read and write for it to be really effective. We've had some more luck with image boards."
"Neat. But I've been asking all the questions; was there anything else you wanted to know?"
She has some meticulously relayed questions about the danger sense from Edna, and a few more general ones about Margaret's home, which seem to be half idle curiosity.
Margaret's danger sense is clearly most useful for personal defense, but hackable for use in ship-to-ship combat at least a bit. She's happy to satisfy idle curiosity about 21st century earth, which she clearly misses a lot.
"Thanks for all the information. I'll send you along to someone who knows anything about spacesuits, now, how about?"
"That sounds good to me! Thanks for--well, everything, but most recently the explanations."
"You're quite welcome."
And she gives directions for where to find someone who works with spacesuits.
They're not doing anything critical, just working on some numbers. What does she need?
"I don't know how much you've been told, but the short version is I have magic powers and they work better depending on what I'm wearing and also mean I can modify what I'm wearing, so I'd like to try on a spacesuit and see if I can minimize how much it interferes with the magic. I won't do anything to it I can't reverse."