Dragon is available at all hours to answer any questions it might have.

Great.

And the Queen doesn't know any of Lorica's shorthand. The AI equivalent of inside jokes. The habits she herself is barely aware of that it knows how to read. She can probably get across to Rete, without tipping off the Queen, that she thinks Dragon might need... help. Of a particular kind. Though she'll spend the remaining allotted time working on getting the gaze tracking software rejiggered to read micro-"expressions" in her shade form since she doesn't really have a... face... anymore.

The Fairy Queen does not give any indication of having noticed any subterfuge from her shade.

Great. That either mean she hasn't noticed anything or she wants to see where Lorica's going with this before doing something heinous.

Would she really wait like that?

(Yes, yes she would.)

Lorica's not gonna volunteer to go back in, if Glaistig Uaine's not bringing it up first.

Around midday, the Fairy Queen would like a demonstration of what Rete can do for her.

"Of course, what would you like to see it do? It has only had a little while to become accustomed to the environment but it has a lot of data from outside on it."

"Whatever you think would be the most compelling demonstration of its utility."

"...would you like me to build it a drone so it can pass messages for you to other blocks, perhaps?"

"I believe it would be more trouble than it's worth to protect such a drone."

"I've also got it talking to Dragon, if there is anything you'd like to hear from her. It can play music like the doodad you had me working on earlier though right now its speaker quality isn't amazing. It can project holograms, play chess, read you the Wikipedia page on apricots, translate languages, it's very general but I'm not sure what would be of the most value to you."

"The translation may prove useful, I suppose."

"Sure. It can do most common languages already but if there's a rare one it might need to ask for more data from Dragon."

"We have under our care several who do not speak our native tongue, both among the living and the dead."

"Do you know what they do speak, or have a way to ask them here for Rete to identify it?"

"German, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Cantonese are the ones that come to mind."

"It's got all those."

"And can it understand my charges without them expending much effort to be intelligible to others?"

"I've got it working for me but generalizing it to the others would take a little more work and ideally one of them providing training data."

"That can be arranged."