She doesn't ask about this though she seems somewhat interested. Instead she talks about the annual cycle of weather. Summers are warm and dry; winters are wet with occasional snow.

They have shorter years here than on Amenta! Do they have a distinct spring and autumn? How long do their crops tend to take to grow?

They have spring and autumn, though it's sometimes hard to distinguish winter from them, especially right along the coast. ...Elu actually doesn't know the time-to-harvest for most crops off the top of her head, they tend to sow on a rolling basis since the growing season is most of the year. Or all of the year if you're on the coast or willing to take some risks and baby your crops a bit. She can guess who would know or where to find the information.

It's the sort of thing they'd need to help with growing local crops! So far they have no reason to believe they would be harmed by eating them but they want to be sure and of course there's "not harmed" and there's "nourished".

They can totally go make a farmer answer some of these questions, there are farms all around.

Sure!

Eventually these greens will get tired. Do locals get tired? And sleep? They can send their house up to the sky and get some people to talk to them who are on a different schedule and not tired, if the locals do not have this need.

The locals do have this need! They also have people who are on different schedules for various reasons but most commonly people sleep when it's dark out and there might not be three shifts of people on hand who would be any use here. They're welcome to come back tomorrow if they'd like.

If the locals also sleep, they will just all sleep in their house here and come out again in the morning.

"Also, it's a vehicle. Like some kind of flying wagon. By the way."

"We will sleep in our vehicle!"

Elu will be available again tomorrow.

So are the greens! They have gotten quicker with the language - they still talk slightly haltingly but the sentences are fully formed much quicker at each step of the interaction.

Elu compliments them on that.

"Our friends in the bigger house in the sky help us!"

"You can talk to them from here?"

"Yes! These things," the glowing rectangles, "can talk to things in our vehicle, which talk to the things in the bigger vehicle in the sky, which talk to the these things," rectangles, "that our friends have. They all listen and help."

"I expect the king will also want to speak with you about learning to make those."

"They are complicated! It takes many different kinds of work to make all the many things that make the things. But it would be good for you to have them! Then we could talk to you more easily."

"They do seem like they'd be complicated."

"Yes. Would any of you like to meet our friends, in the bigger vehicle? You are invited but will have to wash very very very very well. We do not know if your sicknesses can come to us, like we do not know yet if your food is good for us."

"...Do you know if we can catch yours or is that also a mystery?"

"It is also a mystery but we will also wash, and the air in the vehicles goes through special places that make all the diseases in it die. If you are scared you do not have to come! But you are invited."

"I think I would like to visit. How many can come with you this time?"

"We can ask for a vehicle with bath things and space for ten, or a bigger one or more if many people want to come."

Some of the soldiers would also like to visit.