"The medium names?"

"A lot of things that aren't us only have their short names or their short names and their full names which're still pretty short, I guess because they have a lot of generations so making a long name would be hard? But to the type of thing we are, names are history, so if you're being really formal you recite the whole history of your line as far as you know it. I haven't memorized the entire long name yet, so I can just say my medium name when I'm introducing myself, and then people can use my short name once they know my medium name? The medium name's summarized to just biggest thing or title for you and each full-line ancestor. Our species also has a proper name but it's a lot longer and translates weirdly, so probably for that we should just pretend I'm talking to humans and say the human name for us."

"I also have a human name when we're being human-shaped. That one's always short. Humans are another species we live near, but they don't like non-humans usually."

"Our names aren't history and don't go that far back, but they do have parentonymics at the end, which is a little like your medium names, sounds like," says one of the greens. "I'm Hadri be-Aldua de-Ivo."

The other greens also introduce themselves.

"Hi! The translation of my medium name is I think 'child of the sorrow whose ancestor the spiraling one came from slavery who begat the floodwaters of the place of ice whose strength bound the fire who begat the one who combs the long strands of the future fame who begat this one, whose people's hope is bright.'"

"My short name's the last part and the first part - Bright Sorrow. Mom's name is that minus the last thing, so she's Combing Sorrow, and grandma was Binding Sorrow, and great-grandma was Rebellion Sorrow - rebellion doesn't really translate but it's close to the thing that 'came from slavery' means? And great-grandma fought in the rebellion war, so. People who aren't family would call me the whole 'Bright Sorrow,' while family would just call me 'Bright.'"

"I've also got a human name! I dunno how I'd get an Amentan name though."

"So you'd like us to call you Bright Sorrow?" clarifies Hadri.

"Uh-huh! It'll probably change when I'm older but I like it now."

"What should we call your mother?"

"Combing Sorrow!"

"It's nice to meet you, Combing Sorrow," says one of the other greens.

Right after Bright translates this: "It's nice to meet you," and then the green's name.

She has an accent but not much of one.

"How'd the two of you pick up Voan?" Hadri asks.

She's not supposed to tell people about weird eldritch fox gods.

"Mom knows bunches of languages and learns them fast but I learn faster because I like talking to people!" That is technically the sequence of events. She liked talking to people, and she therefore got a language power. 

"Amentan children pick up languages better than adults, too!" says Hadri. "Do you know any other Amentan languages?"

"Not yet!" Because she's only thought of the words for bits of other languages, and doesn't even know those language's names consciously yet. "But I know English and Latin and Arabic and shoggoth and Deep One and a whole five words in Aklo I'm not allowed to say."

"Not allowed to say!" laughs Hadri. "All right, we won't ask to hear those, then! Which one is the pretty musical one we've been hearing you two speak?"

He's probably assuming they're curse words instead of eldritch fox summoning words but she's not gonna correct him. 

"That's shoggoth! Which is also what the humans call us. One shoggoth, many shoggoths, the shoggoth language."

"Shoggoths," repeats Hadri. "Is that also what you like to be called?"

"It's not a bad word or anything, so it's fine."

"All right. How'd you two get here?"

She goes solemn.

"We were living in among the humans and some bad humans found us, and mom picked me up and told me to close my eyes and there was a lot of shouting and weird noises? And then the world stopped making sense and then we were in a field." Quick conversation with mom, then: "And mom says she didn't try to open a portal or anything but if the humans were using weird stuff or old broken technology, then something might have interacted with what she was doing to protect us."

"Is there any way to try to make that happen again on purpose to let people go exploring?"

Talking for a while, then: "The Elder Things had a lot of portals going lots of places, and they broke their stuff when they left, but mom's studied it? And can maybe make portals work enough to at least get home. But exploring's not always safe - there's not a lot of places that'd be able to have Amentans and don't already have other stuff, and other stuff's often not friendly. Amentans might be able to go to Earth. Earth's like here and Amentans are similar enough to humans that humans shouldn't do their thing where they hate weird stuff?"

"Why do humans hate weird stuff?"

"I think they don't like stuff that moves or acts differently than they do? They're really good at spotting when something's moving wrong, too, which's annoying 'cause moving right's hard. I dunno like the evolutionary reasons." Talk with mom: "Mom says she thinks humans are actually just hardwired to react really strongly to weird stuff, so if a weird thing is safe then they'll really like it but if they don't know then they won't like it."

"Huh! Well, we don't mind that you're shoggoths at all so you can move however's comfortable. What other stuff is there besides humans?"