Some more people come in to effect this. 

"I'm hoping if you're not gagged this can get cleared up before anyone gets a cage dropped on them?"

"Probably! Talking does keep having unexpected consequences but maybe this time you've been thorough enough!"

Nod. "I'm curious who sent you here. I don't think they meant us well. But it wasn't the people who brought you in, I'd have noticed."

"Yeah, they sent us through a different court so you wouldn't be suspicious. I don't know how to identify them to you."

"Huh. How long did you travel?"

"She fell asleep four times."

"And you?"

"Don't have to sleep."

"That's convenient. Supposing I wanted to keep you here what sort of place would you want to be kept in."

"I don't feel like I have enough information to answer that question in a way that won't turn out to have been misleading."

Nod. "If the human has travelled for four days it's not safe to put her back in a cage to go lob off on someone else, even if I wanted to do that. So it would be useful to figure out how you both can stay here without this routinely endangering or terrifying my people. I don't have any idea what you're capable of or what'll provoke you."

"I have a roughly human psychology but am unusually scrupulous among the category and even if you've met a human who has explained humans to you in the past I'm from a very different cultural background. Unsafe how?"

"Good odds of dying of something along the way or shortly after she arrives."

"Why?"

"I think a contributing factor is that humans need to eat quite frequently. But we've never had one, so I don't know for sure, I just know the advice not to keep them in a cage for more than five or six days."

"I was feeding her, but it will in fact be bad for her health in other ways if you keep her in a cage, yes."

"So I can't just find some people I hate and ship you off to give them a headache. Which is fine, but it means I need to figure out what I can safely do instead."

"Personally, I think I'm very easy to get a good deal out of, but it being easy might rely on my trading partner not being a moral abomination or whatever is going on. I suppose it's possible I'd be just as appalled by a bunch of humans around here if I wandered off and met some."

"Strong language for touching a human we didn't even know you wanted."

"The kind of logic you just employed is precisely the nature of the moral abomination, actually."

"I'm afraid you're going to have to explain more."

"I perceive her to be in her own right as an individual entitled to certain basic treatment such as not being groped by people she has not expressly invited out of her own intrinsic motivation to so grope her, and further consider this entitlement inalienable such that nothing you've finagled about playing music or receiving her as chattel or whatever the hell infringes on it, and neither does anything she's construed to have done. I also consider her to have additional rights beyond those by default that in theory she could be dangerous enough to warrant infringing on, which maybe the whole misfortune business constitutes, if - can I use non-literal figures of speech if I preface them with 'metaphorically'?"

"Meaning you're making some kind of analogy? Yes, you can do that."

"If I metaphorically squint."

"You consider it very important that nobody gropes anybody ever, if they didn't specifically ask for it?"