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The planet looks like an ideal spot for colonization from a distance. Covered with a range of biomes, from lush forest to long coastlines to roaring rivers. However, when the Amentans arrive they quickly notice anomalies on their scans.
A population of humanoids lives on the planet, scattered - sometimes individuals are spotted alone and other times they appear in groups of up to a few thousand. They appear similar to child Amentans, except for a general lack of bright hair colors. Civilization appears primitive - in some cases so primitive that it's confusing how they survive at all, with small groups managing to survive in environments as harsh arctic tundra huddled around campfires, in sandy villages in a desert with a single well. A small number of cities exist, most without obvious sources of sufficient food to support them.
As the Amentans investigate further they notice more anomalies of a far less consistent nature. There's an aurora in the northern hemisphere that shines continuously, day and night. One of the cities appear to change subtly in composition and position constantly, with no obvious construction visible. A group of the humanoids appear to live underwater, alongside a gigantic manta ray, hundreds of feet in breadth. A giant skeleton statue of green crystal seems to be moving. A blur of feathers and wings zooms across the planet like a missile at one point. Except for the humanoid species, none of the anomalies repeat.
These are just the anomalies they notice easily from orbit, more may be found on closer inspection.
Amentans who look like them are 2 or 3.
Experience takes time to accumulate! Since the amaliens don't know where they came from presumably they also don't remember being chronologically 2 or 3.
Would she like to come up on the spaceship and see some of the things people up there do?
Depends! They don't have unlimited fuel with them so they will need to go home for resupply sooner if they make more trips, it would be ideal to wait till there's more reasons for shuttles to be going to and fro.
Like if it turns out this blue is allergic to something here, or they need to go up for more food anyway, or need to land shuttles on other parts of the planet and want one of these ones up there to dispatch on another landing like that.
Fika does not need any help to end up perched on the blue's head, as high up as she can get.
The blue will attempt to settle her a little more comfortably, like, on the shoulders, but then continue with the chat as though there were nothing odd about this.
Fika will accept being settled comfortably while she braids the blue's hair (assuming the blue doesn't object).
The blue doesn't have very long hair but it is okay to attempt to braid it.
How about the day after tomorrow if no excuses come up before then? But if other amaliens want to come they can join in the same trip!
Fika only actually remembered that this blue is a person a bit after she started trying to braid her hair but she's already up here. Maybe she can use some of her own hair to do some complicated things to get the blue hair to braid. She's very good at arts and crafts.
Fluffeld can come too if he doesn't put his mouth on anything.
The shuttle the greys and greens came down on is big enough that they could live in it if they wanted to, but they like spreading out a bit in the tents. It does have their showers and food and stuff inside it. The one the blue came down in is much smaller, only a couple of rooms' worth of space plus the propulsion.