"We'll have a more permanent place for you soon enough. Can you hook into local plumbing systems instead of digging wells?"

"Sure, that's definitely possible, we can also use your electricity grid instead of making our own onsite but we don't have the materials to do that with us. I'm also not sure how much we'd need relative to your capacity."

"Probably a question for our engineers."

"Definitely."

Smile. "Is there anything you need before we get you talking to people with fancier titles than me?"

"I don't think so, nothing is urgent and it would be silly to make plans before we figure out what's happening."

"That does make sense."

Sapphire waits to be directed to whoever she should meet next.

Next seems to be a local representative from the medical branch of the International Science Association. He's sorry for the wait - the news is still spreading, and of course it'll take people a while to pick the best place for talks...

Anyways, he's very curious about the aliens! They look a lot like the Krissan, actually. Have they noticed a lot of similarities beyond appearance?

"Hi, I'm Wilfred I'm the team doctor. The books we've looked at didn't go into depth about anatomy but it looks like the broad strokes are the same. It's a strange coincidence."

He nods. "We know that what we'd consider sapience doesn't always require the same body plan, too, though it's possible that complex tool use to the level of magic or space travel would."

"We don't think that's the case there doesn't seem to be something special about bipedal locomotion for instance but it's hard to know without actually meeting people."

"That would've been our guess, too."

"We're not planning to stop exploring, maybe we'll discover proof out there some day."

"That'd be absolutely delightful."

"Oh definitely. Even without verifiably comparable species, our biologists and really anyone in a bioscience field have been getting a lot of interesting data bout how life can develop such that the world it's on at present has an oxygen nitrogen atmosphere. So far the basics of organic chemistry turn out pretty similar but there's some interesting variations in the details."

"We can get you all the data we have, though I suspect you all are quite far ahead of us in investigative abilities."

"Probably, a lot depends on high-speed computers for processing. As a start it would be good to have a proper anatomy textbook. I'd also be happy to answer any questions you have."

"We can get you anatomy and biology textbooks fairly easily, yes - I might need to think on my own questions for a bit. It's hard to know where to start."

"Of course. This is uncharted territory for all of us. We've done our best to plan for meeting others like ourselves but we had no way of knowing how it would actually be."

"And we've only just started dreaming about it."

"I'm sure we'll figure it out together."

Smile. "We'd love that."

Wilfred waits a few moments to see if the representative will follow up.

There are a few questions about differences in organic chemistry.