The screen transitions to a line with the three videos from before, in the order 'item breaks' 'get brick' and 'get item'.

At the 'item breaks' end of the line is an exaggerated face of a human frowning, and at the 'get item' end there is an exaggerated face of a human smiling.

Another video appears on the screen, showing the first human pointing to an item, the second human trying to pick it up but finding it attached to the shelf, then the first human sighing dramatically and pointing to another elaborate item, which then gets passed over the wall.

An image of a human hand, finger extended, then drags that video to between 'get brick' and 'get item', closer to 'get item'.

At the bottom right, there is another ring like the previous ones.

This looks like preference ranking? And the human prefers getting a brick to having their item break, because if they get a brick the item is still there? Griffie taps the bottom-right ring.

The videos vanish, and the pictures of the human smiling and frowning are replaced with images of Griffie smiling and frowning.

The images of Griffie aren't quite right, their face doesn't work quite like that.

Many videos appear below the line, waiting to be dragged.

• Griffie gardening without a bubble.
• Griffie in space without a bubble.
• Griffie in space with a bubble.
• Griffie in space with a bubble and a drone with a touch screen.
• Griffie in a glass box in the spaceship.
• Griffie in a glass box in the spaceship with people around.
• Drones flying and assembling a glass box around Griffie, after which the bubble around Griffie vanishes.
• Drones flying and assembling an opaque box around Griffie.
• Drones flying and assembling a glass box around Griffie (with the bubble vanishing), then a closed metal structure around the box, then humans coming in to the structure and standing outside the box.

Finally, there is a parchment-space off to the side.

Griffie draws a glassy image tablet in the parchment space. They would like to indicate a preference for communication options. "Life support outside the bubble, but no communications" and "communications, but no life support besides the entirely-reliable-thus-far bubble" are things they are not sure how to weight against each other.

The screen turns dark for a bit, and then lights back up with a smaller image of a tablet to the side. A sample Griffie hand shows dragging the tablet, which promptly duplicates, leaving one where it started and one to be dragged to one of the videos of Griffie in a glass box, and a tablet appearing in it, then it reverts to just the tablet image off to the side and the video the way it was.

Using the tablet-adding option, Griffie creates the following ordering:

1. Griffie with an exaggerated fake smile.
2. Griffie without a bubble in a glass box in the big metal structure with a tablet and with people near the box.
3. Griffie gardening without a bubble.
4. Sphere-constructs assembling a glass box around Griffie and a tablet, with the bubble vanishing, then a closed metal structure being built around the box with humans entering the structure and not the box.
5. Griffie in the big metal structure with a tablet and with people further from the box.
6. Sphere-constructs assembling a glass box around Griffie, after which the bubble vanishes.
7. Griffie in space with a bubble and a sphere-construct with a tablet.
8. Griffie in space with a bubble and nothing else around.
9. Griffie in space without a bubble.
10. Griffie with an exaggerated fake frown.

The image of Griffie in the opaque box remains unsorted.

The screen changes to show the video of a structure with a glass box in it being assembled around Griffie, with a little ring in the bottom right corner.

Alright, sounds like a plan. Griffie taps the ring.

Larger drones begin to bring out various components, including glass, metal, and complicated items Griffie does not recognize. The actual process is a lot more complicated than the video, and actually involves building multiple layers of box around Griffie first.

If Griffie still has a good view of everything, having more than one layer of box is acceptable. Construct-operators often like redundancy, and also redundancy.

The boxes are all transparent, at least the main panels. They are joined together by a more diverse set of metals, hinges, and welds.

Yeah, that's how it seems like building a glass box would work. Griffie waves to the sphere-constructs and smiles.

The tablet now displays only the parchment texture.

Hmm. Which is more important to explain, "I know what humans are" or "actually, the other book I showed you is in Chraiqun, and if I'm going to show you the third book, it'll be in Sylvan". Let's go with the second one.

Griffie draws the setup the tablet had used for linking glyph-sequences and Celestial words, but with each row having an oval to the left of three sets of boxes. Griffie gets out the holy text and the dictionary, tying them to their belt. They then put each of the particularly illustrate-able words from the holy text in the first column of boxes, illustrate the words to the left, and put Celestial and Sylvan translations. The column of Celestial text gets a drawing of Griffie writing on the tablet above it. The column of Sylvan text gets a drawing of the dictionary cover above it. The column of Chraiqun text gets a drawing of the holy text cover above it.

The sketched boxes turn into boxes with actual nice columns to make it easier for Griffie to use.

Alright, they get the concept. Griffie fills out a few more words, then shows the sphere-constructs a few more pages of the holy text, then a few pages of the dictionary.

Then, in the parchment space, Griffie draws the line from the frowning human to the smiling human.

Below the line, Griffie draws rectangles: one with a picture of Griffie writing more things, one with a picture of Griffie showing the sphere-constructs the holy text more, one with a picture of Griffie showing the sphere-constructs the dictionary more, and an empty rectangle.

"Captain? Entropy analysis on that last book. You… probably want to see this."

"…I see. Figure out how to ask. That goes for all of you! Anyone who can figure out how to ask if that thing is a dictionary or just a list of ancestors or whatever tells me immediately."

The screen remains that way for minutes. Then finally, a video plays. A human writing a book, with another view added to make it easy to see what is written in the book.

They take an apple, look at it, write down a word, then write a bit more on the book. Then they take another object and repeat the process, over and over and over, with no apparent relation between the objects.

That video is in one circle, the other circle is empty. A picture of Griffie's dictionary appears.

Griffie's dictionary contains more than just nouns, and probably wasn't made that way, but that does seem like a similar sort of book? Griffie drags the dictionary picture onto the circle with the human writing down words after looking at objects.

The screen shifts to a picture of Griffie's dictionary surrounded by lots of smiling humans.

Griffie takes a bit of parchment, starts moving as if to hand it to someone, and lets the corner of it disintegrate. Griffie points at the disintegrating corner and frowns. (This is what Griffie thinks would happen if Griffie tried to give them the dictionary right now.)

Griffie then starts showing the drones dictionary pages again.

They show a video of Griffie showing the pages a lot faster, not quite just flipping, but pretty close, transitioning to a video of very smiling humans looking at the video of Griffie doing so on a similar tablet, and tapping it to make it show individual pages completely free from blur.

Alright, they are very good at building sensors. Griffie shows the drones the dictionary pages at around the suggested pace.

The tablet shows lots of smiling humans as Griffie does so.