:Right:

:Will you be coming back here for lunch?: Jisa doesn't have a very good alternative for getting food, at least not until she finds an elemental willing to pretend to be hers and do odd jobs with her to earn money. 

:Yeah, I'll do my chores in town and buy food when I'm done and eat here and then have class:

:All right, I'll come back and meet you here then: 

Maurabel brings her shopping bag and goes and checks out Penumbra and a Lightning and goes into town. She comes back still accompanied by both elementals and with a couple net bag full of groceries - nuts and more lentils and bread and green onions and dried fish and lemons and oranges and raisins and a cucumber and some greens and a glass jar full of yogurt.

Jisa spends the morning finding a spot in town to sit and then stretching her Thoughtsensing outoutout and trying to find, one, any sign of the Adamant she rescued, and two, any minds with the familiar signature of the ones she Mindhealed at. 

The Adamant is out of range. All the humans are still in the city, though.

Her Mindhealing is much shorter range than Thoughtsensing, so she spends the entire morning traipsing around the city to get close enough to undo set-commands. She also does a teensy bit of reading their surface thoughts, mostly to check if they're suspicious or still thinking about the events of two days ago. 

They are super alarmed and concerned and wonder if it was maybe an advance action from an enemy across the sea, with strange advanced magic unheard of within the formerly-Imperial continent.

Well, at least it's better than them connecting it with her. 

Jisa does, once she gets back to meet Maurabel for lunch, ask about the 'enemies across the sea'. 

"As far as I know we don't have any actual enmity with anyone across the sea. But we can see them, with magic, we know there's people beyond this continent, so if somebody shows up with magic nobody understands, 'across the sea' would be more obvious than 'from another universe'."

:I guess 'from another universe' does sound pretty implausible:

:As far as I know it's never happened before!: Bread. Cucumbers in the yogurt with lemon and green onions for lunch.

Jisa isn't normally a huge fan of vegetables, but she's delighted enough to eat something that isn't bread to go at the cucumber yogurt with enthusiasm. 

Maurabel gives a little of the food to each of the elementals she has along. The Lightning also eats the lemon rinds and onion roots. Penumbra's shy; Lightning, chewing pith, attempts to braid Jisa's hair without asking.

Awwww. Jisa does not object to this at all! 

:Do you have names other than the kind of elemental you are?: she asks Lightning.

:Nah. It seems like it'd be weird. When there's duplicates the university uses numbers:

:Huh. What do you do if you and another Lightning are friends with each other?: 

:What do you do if you and another Jisa are friends with each other? I think this would only be a big deal if there were three. Or I guess two Lightnings and two other people talking about us:

:I think humans have more different names than there are kinds of elemental! I've never met another Jisa. And one year there were two Healers called Leta, and one of them had a nickname instead: 

:Huh. Well, in the wild we usually don't gather in big groups:

:That makes sense, I guess. You don't have your own cities or anything: 

:I don't know if we'd ever have invented them or not:

:I'm not sure, I'm trying to think if you'd have the same reasons for it. You don't seem to need houses, or to eat, although I guess you can for fun, so you might still want trade for especially good foods...: 

Lightning shrugs. She can't tie off the braid because she has nothing to tie it with so when she gets to the end she lets it start to come unraveled.