Well you are very nice and I wish you twenty.

'Thanks. The older kid's Kusumgal, the younger's Nishirtu. Their mom's Mu-Shita.'

And he leads her to the kitchen, where there's three people waiting - an adult woman, a boy just barely into adolescence, and a preteen girl. He speaks out loud and leaves the translation public as he tells them this is their visitor, she'll be staying while they figure out immigration.

"Did you ask her name, dad?" the girl asks. Her thoughts are apparently all public, but they're fairly orderly and the translation's sort of at the forefront.

"Oh, people where I'm from don't have names mostly. You can make up a nickname for me if you want."

"Huh. I heard some swarms are like that? Are you from a swarm, it'd be cool if you were from a swarm - "

The concept of 'swarms' is very vague in her head. Something about hundreds of children with a single mother, all loyal to her.

"Nishir, be polite," the woman says. Then, to the stranger: "I'm Mu-Shita. Probably the kids will pick something for you and the baby, but for now let's get you both fed."

"Thank you! I'm not a swarm, I'm an orf."

"Haven't heard about orfs before!"

"I think I'm the only one right now."

"Oh. That's sad. Being the only human would be weird."

The guy who has so far entirely failed to introduce himself gets out a few leftover samples of assorted variously processed grains, as well as some plant-based proteins for the orf to try. These are mostly beans, since he figures that's closer to grains than nuts, knowing absolutely nothing about botany. (He also makes quick snacks for his own children).

She tries everything he puts in front of her and finds it all edible and gives the baby (who has tusks, two on the left and one on the right) some to try. The baby seems to find them edible too. "Thanks!"

'You're welcome.'

'What types of things do you need, other than food?'

"I have to sleep about as much as an Elf or an orc but I don't know how much that is compared to you..."

'Humans without magic sleep about a third of each day.'

"I don't think I sleep a third of the anything. Maybe a... fourth? Or less?"

He nods. 'Anyways, we have a guest room you can have.'

"Thanks!!! Wow, I didn't even bring you a present, before the monster showed up I was going to bring some Elves a present so they wouldn't shoot me."

He shrugs, awkwardly. 'You have a kid, and you didn't attack me or anything, and it's not costing me anything to help. And I've ever been stranded somewhere weird with a baby, so, it's - good to pay help forward.'

"You got stranded somewhere weird with a baby?"

'It's - a long story and hard to put into words. Which I'm not good at in the first place. That was with Nishirtu, though.'

"Well this seems like a great weird place to be with my baby." The baby accepts more beans.

'That's good.'

'At some point we'll - want to get you to the immigration office or something. This place has open borders, and not much in the way of basic income, though, so it's not urgent.'

Basic income?

'It's a thing in the Empire and some of the nicer places. It's - one of the kinds of things some governments provide to people for free. ...I don't know if that's the level I should be explaining at or if I need to explain income.'