"She's Valia."  Seem says of the floating orb 

Fika whispers to the Amentan that Valia doesn't really like being called a monster but she is one.

"Oh, okay, uh, hi, Valia. I guess you could come back after the puppet show and help clean the theater."

Valia dips up and down in response to the greeting.

"Okay!"

In the meantime Fika heads out to give Seem and Valia a tour of the city! She can 'splain all the Amentans things, she's learned lots of things!

The theater is near a couple of restaurants - there's a dedicated desserts place, and one for noodle bowls - and a bus station and a bike rental and a newsstand with magazines and umbrellas and snacks and souvenir items with Chaspanti-themed slogans and symbols on them.

"Those are places where they have food! That place as yummy food, though they also make some of the yummy food on a diff-erent planet!"

"Those are places for riding fun things! I havn't learned how to ride any of those things yet.

"Those are books for remembering things, I think!" she says, pointing to the newstand "They have to try really hard to re-member things cause they're all really little even when they're big."

She frowns.

"It's sad."

"Oh, and those are for keeping from getting wet! I've seen Amentans use them! It's sorta con-fusing since they ac-tually seem to like getting wet a lot? They have special bubbles for it and everything!"

Fika really knows her way around here, it's sort of int-imidating. Or it would be, but it's Fika, who is very friend-shaped (and also very Fika-shaped).

'ventually they arrive back at the theater! FIka isn't really good at time so she's just guessing when to go back.

Her timing is accordingly imperfect. They can join the in-progress cleaning if they like but the purples have already started.

They will join! Fika has even learned not to clean with her feet! Unless they have foot gloves.  

Seem has entirely no idea of what she is supposed to be doing, and Fika doesn't especially seem to be offering instruction! Hopefully someone else will do that.

They can each follow a purple and do what they're doing the next row down.

Fika is good at cleaning! For a definition of good that involves an unusual amount of parkour. 

The glass orb hovering next to Seem chimes.

"Can Valia help?" Seem interprets.

"- I don't know, can she?"

"Most of these things seem too hands-on for her I think? Is there something she can do without touching things? Or by them touching her very gently?"

Seem takes a breath after saying this. That was a lot of words to say to a new person. 

"I... don't think so, unless she has powers other than floating?"

"She can spin and things?"

And be friends with me, Seem doesn't say. It does not seem like the sort of power the Amentan is asking about.

"I don't think that's relevant to cleaning."

Valia dips, sad but not surprised.

Seem does her best to clean enough for the both of them.

They can get paid for their assistance after the theater's all neatened up.

Seem neatly divides the money she got between her and Valia. 

"Do we get to play for people soon?"

"At the end of the week. That's the day after tomorrow, right after sunset."