"Understood."

Blai's room has an elevated bed with a ladder leading up to it over a desk. The bed has a pillow and sheets and a blanket. It has a window which is covered. There are more of the lightning-y holes in the wall.

"Don't uncover the window until sunrise, we'll tell you when you can. This switch" he flips it demonstratively "turns the light on and off, please leave it off when you're not in the room. You'd normally have to wash the sheets at some point, but there's a machine for that and someone can show you how to use it, you won't need to scrub them by hand."

"Good, I never actually learned how to do that." Armor: off. It's a slightly laborious process.

"Do you need a hand?"

"Are you trained to assist in removing armor?"

"No, but if there's something I should hold still, or pull in a specific direction, I could probably do that."

"No need." Mail off. Gambeson off.

Chris makes a face.

"Thaaaaat needs washing. Do you know if it's delicate?"

"...if it rips in the process I can repair it with magic."

"Okay! Let's rustle up some spare clothing so you can get your clothes in the wash! Uh, we have a cultural norm where people are usually supposed to cover their genitals and their rear and women are also supposed to cover their chests, so we don't want you to just be naked in the laundry room. And we have a machine for drying clothes, but that machine can damage more clothing than the washing machine – not just tears, sometimes they shrink – so you might want to hang up your clothes to dry."

"All right. I do not have my own spare clothes, this is my only civilian outfit."

"Makes sense. People pack several changes of clothes, we should be able to buy something your size off someone. I'll make a post about it. In the meantime you could borrow some of mine but it's not going to fit very well."

"A post?"

"Devices like the one I was using can be connected to each other, with wires and by sending invisible signals through the air, so someone can enter in a note on one device and then other people can view it on their devices. A lot of the devices like that on the base are connected with each other. We can also exchange information with the broader world that way sometimes, we'll probably get a chance later today, but not right now. That's how the encyclopedia-thing works: the broader world has a big encyclopedia-thing and people add entries to it, and we brought a copy of it here, so we can look at it on the devices here even when we can't exchange information with the broader world. …which reminds me. If you want to be a secret we need to figure that out before that time, because otherwise someone is definitely going to tell their family."

"...if you want to treat my presence as sensitive information I'll cooperate with that but I do not particularly wish to be a secret."

"Well, in that case I'm not telling people to shut up. If the program wanted any aliens to be kept secret they should have warned the only law enforcement officer on the base that aliens were expected. …they might still declare you're supposed to be secret and we'll tell people to not talk about you if so, but I'm not doing it in advance."

"Understood. I can't cast any of the spells that would let me contact anyone I know; if someone comes looking for me it will be in several weeks when I'm late for an obligation I was traveling to."

"…let's follow up on that once we get your clothes in the wash. Up for borrowing mine? You'll need to cuff the sleeves and the legs."

"Yes, that's fine. Does the supervision interact with the modesty in the one way or the other?"

"If you're willing to be seen naked I … I was going to say you don't have any parts I haven't seen before but now I'm actually not sure, maybe you do, either way you can change in my room and I don't care all that much. If you're not you can, I don't know, stand behind my desk so I don't see you below the waist."

"I do not particularly care. It was too cold for casual nudity at my posting but it happened when I was in basic training," shrugs Blai.

They head to Chris's room, which looks an awful lot like Blai's room but with more stuff in it.

"Oh, I should give you a tee shirt, that'll be easier."

Chris hands Blai a mildly stretchy short-sleeved shirt with no obvious fastenings, long pants which have a button and also an interlocked metal thing as well as belt loops, a mildly stretchy pair of short pants with a very stretchy thing at the waist, socks, a belt, and a clear bag.

"The bag is for what you're wearing right now."

Blai unlaces his shirt and takes it off and inspects the knit material like he's never seen anything like it and then pulls it over his head and tucks the shirt into the bag. Then before he repeats the like procedure with the pants he investigates the zipper like he's never seen anything like it and can't derive by looking what's going on there.

"…that's a zipper. You pull the slider down and it unzips and you pull it back up to re-zip it. I can demonstrate."