That makes sense. Maybe someone will be that brave.

Probably! It sounds like a good way to get famous. Nobody here is volunteering, though.

A few more Dwellin have heard the Amentans want souvenirs and give them this and that as gifts, but their meeting place is not as busy as before, especially now that the kids are getting called back to do their chores.

That makes sense.

They promise to come back when the cargo for trade is in, and exchange metals for stuff, but for now they are going to go explore somewhere else!

They go to another, larger village.

Here are some rolling grasslands by the ocean and a village with some kind of large building near the middle of town and a stone wall and piers along the river!

Loud bells ring repeatedly in town and dozens of locals watch warily from several hundred meters away. All armed again, but that seems to be a constant of Dwellin.

They hopefully will get somebody who speaks the language they've been learning. "Hello! We are friendly!"

"Who are you!" Comes back an accented call.

"We are called Amentans! We are from another planet and came across the sky to meet you."

"Old stories only!"

"Will you give us a blade?" A different voice calls from off to the left.

"...We did not bring blades of our own, but we have one from some other Dwellin, will that do?"

"...It means peace! Giving up a weapon is a show of trust!"

Several of the distant watchers dart for the town at this point. Also, some of them are trying to sneak closer through the low spots in the hills, only foiled due to the shuttle's height.

They find the knife they got from the other Dwellin and hand it over despite the objections of one green who thinks it will be of tremendous historical significance.

Everyone seems to calm down as soon as they do. Another batch of runners is sent off.

"You truly come from across the sky? With a flying ship, perhaps we will believe you. I am second-" (an unfamiliar word), "-chief of Three Bells, named Yaowek. If you mean no harm, be welcome to approach the gates."

A subset approach the gates!

The gates are open. Dwellin in armor line the walls, pushing for space to stare curiously. Farmers from the surroundings gawk and point from hilltops, too. Yaowek and a few others are the ones to actually approach. The bells stop ringing.

"Such weird strangers I have never seen before," Yaowek declares, "Snout-less, nearly hairless, hornless, and yet so similar despite it all. You even mostly talk like us! What is the sea beyond the sky like?"

"We learned this language from other Dwellin and speak differently at home! Our oceans look much like yours."

"No, the sea beyond the sky! The place you use to go from one planet to another!"

"More importantly, second Yaowek, what exactly do you wish to find here?" An orange-furred Dwellin with forward-curving horns asks.

"The place we fly in to get off of planets is very empty, with no air! The stars are easier to see, and we stay inside ships sealed full of air to breathe. Here we want to meet people and learn things and trade."

"No air! And clear stars! Oh, I want to see it now..." Yaowek bounces on her feet. "Meet people, eh? Well, hello! I like learning things too!"

"Trade? Trade is good. We have a market if you'd like to see it?" The orange one says, relaxing at the word.

"Yes, please!"

This town has the buildings a lot closer together and some of them have two floors. All the streets are neat cobblestone and the buildings display solid workmanship.

"That's a restaurant and that's a school and that's a militia house don't go in it and that's the waste house and that's a place for plays and that's a law house and that's a granary and that's a drinking place..." Yaowek keeps up a running commentary as they go. People lean out of houses and alleys to look at the Amentans, giving them space.

"And here's the marketplace!" It's a large open area filled with wood stalls with colorful awnings and a fair amount of shouting. The smell of cooking is on the air. At the far end of the open square is the large stone building- It towers over the rest of the town and has a big stained-glass window depicting two Dwellin embracing.

Lovely! Amentans take many pictures of things and want to know who's depicted in the stained glass.

"Donraf Sea-Eyes and Nuumil, the Architect! Nuumil basically built Three Bells, by building the harbor that supports us and then designing the walls, the grand hall, and many other buildings over the decades. Every one of their incarnations, they quest to meet each other again and return here, adding another square to their hard-won tapestry of love! They, ah, haven't been around for the last two decades but I'm sure they'll arrive sooner or later."

Hey, how do they tell for sure if someone is really a particular person's reincarnation or just making it up?

"Oh, you can't tell for sure. I've seen fake reincarnations. Or just mistaken ones, sometimes. But the pair leave hidden notes to themselves and know how to open a special vault, which is at least hard to fake."

Cool! Are the two of them generally reincarnated around the same time?