"Has it been a long time? Have you been lonely?"

It shakes its... self, since it doesn't have much of a head to speak of.

"That's good.

"So...what are things like, here?"

{things... are?} it tries, after a few seconds of puzzled silence.

"Is there anything to eat besides apples?"

Nod-bob. {lots other fruit! and fish! maybe can eat slimes? not sure.}

"...Slimes?"

{slime is monster! is not very dangerous. small, round, squishy.}

"Can you elaborate on 'monster.'"

Tiny pointy shrug. {monster is monster, do monster things.}

"What are monster things? What qualifies as a monster?"

{slime is monster, zombie is monster, other monster is monster. monster try to hurt spirit. monster try to hurt friend. slime is reactive monster, only try to hurt you when you touch it.}

"Are there other monsters like that? Why do monsters want to hurt people?"

"Hey," Leuska says, strolling into view, followed by the rest of the people in her group plus air spirit.

"Hi. --Oh, hi," he adds when he sees the air spirit. 

The forest spirit waves to the cloud spirit.

The cloud spirit waves back.

"So I heard something about you being made aware that monsters are a thing that exist." 

"Uh, a little." 

"Slimes are annoying and, well, slimy, but not too dangerous, and as long as we don't go into the creepy purple area--there's a creepy purple area--we shouldn't have to deal with anything else, except at night." 

"Good thing we're already in the habit of keeping watch," he says wryly. 

{can build house,} the forest spirit contributes. {get wood from tree, build house, be safe from zombie.}

"So the zombies aren't smart enough to bash in doors or anything?"

{zombie can't open door,} it agrees.

"Okay. Cool. Let's build a house. We could go to that river, or...any advice on cutting down trees when you're not a frost giant?"