Nobody on hand knows exactly how key cards work but a yellow looks it up on her everything and reads the article on Summary Bank for her.

That is so cool and contains lots of new concepts!

Also how does she use one.

You just get the key near the lock, like this.

Cool!

Is it okay if they go to their room and go sleep now? (Nausicaa's really tired even though her mom isn't; she hasn't been sleeping as much as she normally does.) Nausicaa can probably stay up for a bit answering some questions but mom says it's important to sleep whenever she gets yawn-y.

Yes, that's fine! They can sleep and some people will be waiting to talk them and get them anything they need in the morning.

Okay! Thanks, bye!

They go up to their room, and talk in their fluting language a bit - Nausicaa's mom's really uncertain about this much attention - and then Nausicaa eats (after mom checks the food) and flops on the bed and sleeps.

She eats more than she had been, but not nearly as much as her child, and stays up.

When the sun comes up, she wakes Bright.

"Are you okay to go talk to people?" she asks. (She's not really, but...)

"Yeah! Come on, let's go!"

Nausicaa only barely sits still for breakfast, and then off! To talk to aliens who maybe like shoggoths!

There's a yellow sitting in a chair in the hallway who smiles when she sees them! "Good morning! Were you comfortable?"

"Uh-huh! It was a really nice bed. And the food was really neat! And kind of weird."

"Is there other food you'd like better? I can order whatever you want."

"It's good weird. We don't have most of it on our planet. Though more stuff with lots of salt would be good, since food for people who aren't us usually isn't salty enough. Mom can digest more foods than me so is okay with anything I can't eat or don't like."

"We can get you salty stuff!" smiles the yellow. "Do you have a reason to be in this town, or would you be up for moving to a bigger city?"

"We don't have a reason. This was just the first city mom found after we got here. A bigger city might be cool?"

"Cool! We're not sure an ordinary passenger train would be good for very heavy people, so we've got a really big truck that can carry the both of you."

"Can we talk to people while we're in the truck? Talking to people's fun."

"Sure, we can have some people ride with you if you want! There's some greens who want to know more about your species, would those be good?"

"Greens are science and art stuff right? That'd be good!"

"That's them! I'll let them know." A purple steps out of the elevator and brings over a tray of pepper-dotted eggs and sausages and cheese-smothered bread and a bowl of porridge and some beans, with a couple saltshakers off to the side. He offers it to Anna.

Anna checks it over, keeps the sausages and beans back for herself (with copious amounts of salt added) and hands the rest to Bright.

"That sounds nice!"

And: food! Even though she already ate she still has room.

And once they are all fed they are escorted into a big truck labeled PROVINCIAL SHIPPING, which has four greens in the back who are all delighted to see them!

Nausicaa is happy to see them too! Which makes up for her mom's continued wariness hopefully.

She has questions. Like why all their birds are tiny. (She can also answer questions, too, that's just fair.)

"There are some big birds on Amenta! The ones in cities are tiny because it's easier for tiny birds to find food in cities," says a green.

"Is that different from when little things need to eat a lot more than big things do, so they can get big themselves?"

"Also! I think we should do names, because names are very important and you need a thing to call me and mom and probably the ride is long enough for the medium names?"