They can ask the crows to carry a letter for her as soon as she has one to send! They don't actually know the roboticist, so they can't really do introductions, but they have a notice up on the noticeboard, so sending messages is fine.

That's fine! She's excited; she's definitely going to practice writing a lot anyway because it's just practical, but the robots can be a little bonus motivator. She probably won't actually make any once she gets home, as she has a feeling that's probably frowned on, but it would be nice to know.

Does honeysuckle have a map? Mabel would like to try to find out where she is and how far away from home she might be.

There's one back in the main building, sure. She can check on dinner while she's there.

She's back shortly with quiche, toasted acorn-flour bread with jam, baked apples, and a map. It's a map of Earth, clearly enough, though some of the coastlines are different; it's fairly subtle in most places, but the area around England is land rather than ocean and there's a strip of land joining Alaska to the corner of Russia, too.

She recognizes... none of this. The continents are totally different, there are no marked cities, much less a marked Chabe. She figured that they probably wouldn't have maps exactly the same as she was used to but this is completely unrecognizable.

Is this the whole world? She asks this question in writing but it's pretty stilted and she's sure the grammar is wrong, but hopefully it will get across what she needs to.

That's everything, yeah. Well, except for some minor islands. They're here, a bit north of the place where North America starts to narrow down.

Mabel does not know how to write "world" or "planet"; instead she writes "This is not my territory" and adds emphasis to "territory."

After thinking a little bit she adds "I do not see my territory on the map."

Map is actually written like this, she clarifies, and planet and continent are like so.

If Mabel's home isn't on this map she's not sure they'll be able to get her there... they don't have space flight, nobody's cracked the problem where if you go up too high you stop being able to breathe.

Mabel's planet doesn't either, and even if it did she wouldn't know how to get there. It seems very obviously a magical mishap to her, just not her type of magic. 

She writes that that's okay. She is... pretty bummed out anyway, but she's still worried about seeming rude, so she's going to use her knew knowledge of how to say "Planet" and add that the crafters' one is very nice.

It doesn't sound like it's okay really, honeysuckle is sure she'd be pretty shaken up about it if she unexpectedly wound up on a different planet, but it is pretty nice here and hopefully she'll settle in okay.

Yeah, that's true. She is shaken up!

Mabel writes "Yes" and "thank you" again, and fidgets with the books.

Anyway, it's getting late, she should probably set Mabel's kitchen up and get going. ...she bets her mom just kind of guessed at how Mabel likes her aesthetic arranged; did it turn out okay or would she like some things changed around?

Maybe more pink? Mabel likes pink. She writes "pink" and, as always, "thank you."

The kitchen setup would be great! Can honeysuckle maybe walk her through how everything works again? Mabel is going to try to figure out how to phrase that with her limited vocabulary and hope the message gets across.

She can add some pink, certainly, wherever Mabel wants, and bring the kitchen things in and recolor them and show her how to use them - the glyphs on the buttons and sliders are mostly ones she's seen before, but some of the safety features on the cookware do need a little more of an explanation. She also offers to make a shelved cabinet to sit on the countertop and hold all these trays of utensils, since it'll be pretty inconvenient to store them in the cabinets under the counter, and to make a smellproof box to put dirty things in until they can craft them clean.

All of this sounds great! Mabel is visibly excited by all the kitchenware, and also by the pink. A shelved cabinet and a smellproof box would also be great -- Mabel is honestly pretty dirty.

She does have no other clothes -- she's a little anxious about asking for more things but everyone's been so nice lately, and it seems to be culturally expected.

She doesn't know the glyph for clothes so she just draws a shirt and pants.

Hm - there's kind of a lot of clothing miniatures, they were saving that collection to show her tomorrow when she's fresh; does she want to see it tonight anyway or just get something temporary?

Something temporary, please! She's just... very dirty and feels grimy.

She intends to take a bath later and wants clean clothes for that, but doesn't have the vocabulary to express it. She'll just say that the temporary clothes are fine. 

All right. She's not great at eyeballing clothes for fit, so - knee-length grey skirt and loose white shirt okay?

Sounds good! That's pretty close to her casual clothes anyway. Thank you again!

She makes those, flattening the remaining crafting material out and folding it into quarters so she can cut a circle skirt out of it, which she adds a stretchy waistband with a partial drawstring to, and then flattening it again and folding it in half so she can 'cut' a simple shirt and a couple sizes of undershorts out of it - hopefully one of the pairs of shorts will fit well enough. There's not much crafting material left when she's done; she'll have to remember to bring more over in the morning.

These are great! Thank you. This remains super interesting -- the way these people use magic is just so different than she's used to.

Can she ask to see the crafting material itself instead of just the clothes? Or is honeysuckle wanting to go home?

She's not in a rush; here's the rest of the crafting material. Its current form won't tell her much, though, that's completely changeable.

(It looks and feels like a bundle of ordinary cloth scraps, right now, though if she finds where the shirt and shorts were freed from it she'll see that the layers of fabric are fused to each other there.)

Neat! She inspects it for a little bit and then hands it back. If it's not something inherent about the material that does track with what she's observed but she's glad to somewhat verify it.

She is not going to ask honeysuckle to leave, because that would be rude, but she is going to kind of hover awkwardly and maybe start messing with the buttons around the house again, which honeysuckle can join her in if she wants.

Honeysuckle heads out as soon as it seems like Mabel is done with her, saying that she'll be back in the morning with the clothing miniatures.

Sounds good! Mabel nods and smiles.

She takes a bath and then puts on her new clean clothes, and then she's going to sleep again.

Honeysuckle turns up again at midmorning, with a plate of apple-cinnamon french toast; hopefully she didn't leave Mabel waiting, she didn't want to wake her if she'd decided to sleep in.