"We'll let them know that, then. What sorts of things is it possible to compose songs to do?"

...most things, I think? Uh, like, only to stuff that can hear you sing - it doesn't have to have ears but it has to be there, not far away.

"How close does it have to be?"

...it depends how loud you are!

The cat has many more technical questions about magic music and possible defenses against it.

She is not especially well educated. As far as she knows you can fight song with song and win by singing better.

Eventually the cat asks whether she'd be comfortable swearing that what she's said so far in this conversation has been true, since she has this convenient magic for it.

It only works out loud and you don't know the languages I do.

"We can handle translation - it's the same magic as scrying - or you can use your mind-reading to confirm you're not being lied to about the meaning if you want me to give you a wording in Hari."

"I am pretty sure I have not lied to you I so swear."

The cat thanks her.

Her guide wonders if this means the rumors that the imperial government has secret lie-detecting magic aren't true after all. That's disappointing, he totally believed those rumors.

A string of coins appears from apparently nowhere for her, and the cat lets her know she can take them and leave unless she has anything she'd like to say while she's here.

Is there anything else I'm supposed to do here or are you done with me? she asks, taking them and stringing her other rings onto the string and tying it all around her neck as a necklace. The baby chews the nearest bit of the necklace.

"Here in this room, no. Here in this city, someone from the local medical center will probably be waiting outside the maze to talk to you, but you don't have to talk to them if you'd prefer not to. It's a few hours before the next flight back to where you were yesterday, though, assuming you want to take it."

I wasn't attached to the place. It was pretty but here is pretty too.

They're glad she likes their aesthetics.

Whenever she's ready the guide can show her the way back out of the maze.

She follows him agreeably.

As promised there's someone waiting to ask if she'd be interested in testing her healing song and maybe working at the Mar Geru Medical Center depending on how well the song works.

"Sure."

Then they can show her the way to the medical center and while they walk they can explain how they handle patient privacy here and check that she can understand that concept and is willing to work with it.

It is totally new to her and they might have to explain it very slowly.

That's not too surprising for an alien.

"...Okay, so, sometimes people here have secrets. Is that something that happens where you're from?"

...I can read minds, she points out. So can the Maiar.

"And there's no way to hide anything from you or the Maiar with your local magic?"

There is but the orcs don't know how to do it.

"Hm. Why don't they?"