Though the bird is utterly unable to read the banners, she seems extremely interested in the garlands of flowers, swooping about them to get closer looks at every variety.
Meteion lands on the most convenient roof, noting with some surprise that the creatures of this planet were not large metal-shelled bodies at all. Had the one constructed the other? Or had both been spawned from this star, somehow? Or different stars? Although she had been created with as few base assumptions as possible, it seemed that none of them were to hold true about the very first civilizations she met! Well, that was why she was here, after all- to understand what assumptions about the universe were ultimately false. To that end, she initiates the introduction protocol again.
~Greetings and salutations!~
The bird's introduction enters the stream of consciousness of each individual in Meteion's view. The words resolve in the minds of the onlookers, seemingly delivered through the process by which they are most expecting to receive communications- mostly audio data.
~Can you hear me? Do not be alarmed- I mean you no harm. I wish only to hear your words, share your feelings, and know your thoughts. May we please be friends?~*
*The accuracy of Meteion's translation is wholly dependent on the receiver of the message; Meteion herself has absolutely no knowledge of Convergentlanguage (or old Rasikan, for that matter). Indeed, Meteion's method of communication is so strongly influenced by the expectations of the recipient that accounts of the precise words of introduction would vary wildly. This particular flaw in the protocol was, ironically, never noticed during testing in Elpis precisely because the observers were double-blinded and had no expectations about the communications they were about to receive. Later tests would confirm that, e.g., particularly threatened or aggressive individuals would always "hear" these communications as threatening.
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