"Shoes are weird..."

"Are they? Do humans not wear them? I suppose they'd be impractical in your native form."

"Humans wear them! Shoggoths don't, though."

"Are they uncomfortable? I'm afraid it's actually very irregular to walk outdoors barefoot; it's almost impossible to keep a street as clean as a floor."

"It's more the culture stuff around them? I don't get why humans sometimes make weird shoe shapes that're hard to walk in."

"If it's anything like ours it's because they're more decorative that way, but it is a little silly, I admit it." She looks ruefully at her shoes.

She laughs a bit. "I'd probably put big flowers on them or something if I was trying to decorate shoes..."

"They make those!"

She smiles.

"Other than the aquarium, what's in walking distance of here?"

"Let's look on the map!"

There turn out to be several museums, a tower one may ascend to get a view of the city, a famous fountain, a botanical garden if they're willing to walk uphill, and various indoor sport facilities like a skating rink and a climbing gym - "the climbing gym might have to wait till you're public enough that we can tell the staff, so they give you safety equipment suited to your weight".

Botanical garden and tower and one of the science museums sound funnest. Climbing gym would be good, and Bright's not much heavier than a kid her size, but 'twice her apparent weight' could be pretty suspicious, yeah.

"If you don't mind getting up before sunrise, I can probably get us in before hours at the garden. And after hours, at the museums."

"Okay! I can go to sleep early."

"Do you want to do that tomorrow?"

"Yeah! That'd be nice."

"I'll make arrangements!"

"Thanks!"

"You're welcome!" And out she goes.

And Bright settles in to sleep; it's late enough she doesn't think they're likely to want to do the math stuff tonight.

In the early morning Ude comes in to fetch them.

"Hi!" Bright says, cheerful despite the hour.

"Good morning! I found some walking shoes and if we make good time we'll have an hour and a half before the garden opens to the public."

"Okay! We're ready to go!"

They can walk to and around the garden, which has many plants in it, and also interesting bugs and such that are enjoying being among the plants.

Plants are cool!!!

Bright has many questions about everything, but doesn't dawdle too much.