Griffie does nothing for another hour, except for the occasional gesture, but appears conscious.

After that, Griffie goes for the tablet again. Griffie draws Griffie in space in a bubble, Griffie in a bubble in a box, and Griffie unbubbled in a box.

Griffie writes the text "has air, fire, earth, and water" in Celestial, Sylvan, and Chraiqun, then writes the alien glyph-sequences for the elements, prefixed by the alien glyph-sequences first used to indicate images matching text. Arrows extend from this block of text to the bubble and the box with an unbubbled Griffie.

Griffie then writes the text "has no air, no fire, no earth, no water" in the four languages, using the alien glyph-sequences first used to indicate images not matching text for the alien-language part. Arrows extend from this block of text to the starry void and to the first box.

Griffie draws the line from a frowning Griffie (rendered better) to a smiling Griffie. On the frowning side, Griffie draws the box with a bubbled Griffie, and shows water and paper disintegrating on the bubble edge. On the smiling side, Griffie draws the box with an unbubbled Griffie, and shows water and paper being distant from Griffie with no problems.

Some Sylvan sentences appear, some with boxes in them in place of various Sylvan words, with various words listed in the box with rings next to them, and at the end of each sentence there is a ring that says the word Griffie has been interpreting as 'no' or 'incorrect'. Some of the sentences are nonsense, but many are perfectly reasonable.

At the bottom right, there is a ring as well.

Griffie attempts to complete the reasonable sentences using the most appropriate words, and labels the nonsense sentences with the alien-word at the end of the sentence.

There are more sentences as followup, along with various words and pictures and the two alien word options with rings.

Griffie continues to either complete the sentences or mark them with the alien word, and says whether the pictures match the words or not. The aliens are doing surprisingly well at having pictures match words.

A woman enters the room containing the quarantine box Griffie is in, and holds up a tablet which says "What is your name?" in Sylvan.

Griffie looks very excited to see another person, and waves. Griffie writes "My name is Griffith of Erlonn. What is your name?" on the tablet, then turns it towards the woman.

Griffie then realizes that the woman probably does not have a name in Sylvan script, and has no real way of having a transliteration reference, due to the lack of audio transmission thus far. Griffie arranges themself so that both they and the woman can see the text, then points at the words and reads them out loud slowly and clearly. This probably won't transmit sound, since there's still no air, but it might at least communicate that the words go with sounds.

She says some inaudible things, and the words on the tablet change "We have going down."

Gravity begins to gradually affect her, and she stands on the ground outside the box.

"Do you want going down?"

Griffie points to their ear and shakes their head while the woman is talking, then writes: "The name for 'going down' is 'gravity'. I want gravity. I want air and water and earth and fire more."

Griffie reads the words out loud slowly and clearly while pointing to them. They've heard that lip-reading is a thing.

Arete changes the tablet again "I can get you all of those. I do not know how to write my name. I could show you it in my language if you want. We have regular air, like us and our friends use. You look more like our friends than you look like us, but still very different. Do you want us to try the regular air, or can you describe what you want in more detail?"

"You look like a human woman. Your friends look humanoid, but I do not know what kind of humanoid. I usually use the same air that humans use. I use air to photosynthesize, and to breathe. Humans use air to breathe. I want to try the regular air."

Griffie skips the reading-the-words-out-loud step this time, it doesn't seem to be causing much to happen.

The woman speaks again, and the text changes "All right. Before we begin, I have a few things I want. Show me what you look like distressed so I can recognize, and I will give you two things to hold. One you keep pushed down unless you need us to stop doing things, the other you push down if you need us to stop doing things. If either of those happen, we will stop."

And two cylinders with buttons on the end come in through a slot in the glass box.

Griffie writes "I am going to act like I am very afraid now, as though I think something bad is about to happen." Griffie shows the tablet, performs a moment of flailing terror, and then takes it back.

Griffie does the same with "like I tried to breathe air but it was bad for breathing", then mimes choking.

"When you add air and fire and earth and water, I will keep using my bubble. If you do it wrong, I should be able to figure out if there is a problem, but my bubble should protect me from the problem. Then I will not act afraid and I will not act like I tried to breathe bad air. Instead I will write more words."

"My main concern is what happens if something happens to the bubble before there is any earth and fire and water and air here. When I cast the spell 'create water', it should create water that is there indefinitely."

Griffie casts Create Water by their leg, crossing the bubble boundary.

"When I cast the spell 'create water', and there is no air or fire or earth or water, the water disintegrates. The water disintegrates slowly. If something happens to my bubble and there is no air or fire or earth or water, I disintegrate quickly. If I disintegrated entirely I would die. I do not want that."

"I think adding gravity and adding air and fire and earth and water should not make something happen to the bubble. If something happens to the bubble, stop making changes, even if I don't do anything to those objects. If I want to stop having the bubble I will tell you first, so you will know it is not an accident."

When Griffie stops writing, the Water inside the bubble is still present, and the Water outside the bubble has disintegrated.

Griffie takes the cylinders and begins holding down the button they are supposed to hold down if they are safe.

Arete edits the tablet again "I will see about getting you the earth and fire and water faster then. We will need to make sure nothing will eat you or make you sick. Do you want the air and fire and gravity first?"

"I do not need soil or containers of water. I need the air field and the fire field and the earth field and the water field. I also need air. I want the air and the gravity first."

"You mean little bits around you, like air?"

"I don't know if we're talking about the same thing. There is air, and there is what makes air possible. I need both of these. I need the things that make water, earth, and fire possible, but I do not need mist or dust or tiny sparks. Actually, I do need a little mist, but it's not important like air."

"I do not know what that means. I can give air and gravity and light fires and get dirt and rocks and water and mist. Should I do the air and gravity now, then figure out the rest later?"

"You should do that. Also, you should talk to the people who make metal structures where you can breathe, even though there is none of the field that makes air possible outside of the structures. They should know what I mean when I use the phrase 'air field'."

"I will do that after I make sure you are not harmed. I am a healer, and you are my patient. Do you want air or gravity first?"

"Air first. I will hold the cylinders like you said, after I stop writing. Tell me when you do not want me to hold the cylinders."

Griffie, as promised, picks up the cylinders and holds them as instructed.

The quarantine box begins to fill with a human and mercurial friendly atmosphere!

Griffie does not use the buttons to indicate distress. Eventually, they hear the sound of air entering the chamber. Without letting go of the cylinders, they say "Can you hear me now?". Griffie waits for the human to say that they can let go of the cylinders.

"I would like you to hold the cylinders a bit longer in case something goes wrong, but all the air is now in the box. They are telling me you said something. Now that there is air, we could work on voice if you want. I could tell you my name and you could tell me how to write it, and you could tell me how to say yours."

Griffie continues holding the cylinders. Griffie repeats the same sentences that they read out loud before, at the same speed and with the same clarity, because this might be productive and they can't write yet.