The Amentan who has opened the door yelps with surprise and drops her laundry bag!

Neh yelps too and hides further in the bundle of clothes in the dryer!

Meow just sorta stands there.

The door slams and the Amentan runs away without her laundry.

Neh continues to hide for a bit.

Somebody else calls through the door. "Excuse me, amalien?"

Neh hides deeper.

"Excuse me?" they try again.

But when that doesn't work someone will eventually try talking to the mayor, who will send a runner yellow to Lucien's.

"Muh?"

Lucien is so tired. His brain is trying to get back into working order but keeps returning "this time was shaded in blue for sleeping!", which is not very helpful.

"I'm sorry to wake you, but there's an amalien and a monster that seems to be able to teleport and willing to destroy property hiding in an apartment laundry."

"Oh dear."

Lucien pushes himself to wakefulness, his back throbbing as his mind is cleared of sleep. It's painful but he can do this. 

"Is the monster a black bear?"

Clothes go on the body... not inside out like that, whoops.

"Yes, you know it?"

"Yeah, I know who it is."

A glance at his pocket everything to learn Cryptophasia so he can figure out how to say "what is Neh up to right now, it's an emergency" in it.

Neh's name sounds foreign in a Cryptophasian sentence, like someone who doesn't know the language. The word "emergency" can be optionally followed by a discourse marker to indicate a shift into a quick urgent sounding sub-dialect, which has "will contact others to find out more" as a brief interjection between utterances.

Lucien opens the door, rushing out. 

"Take me there and give me an update on the way."

He squishes a feeling of rudeness which is not at all helpful right now.

The runner hurries along. "The bear and the amalien appeared in a club and the bear broke a sconce and they disappeared. Now they're in the laundry room, and the bear frightened the people in the apartment and the mayor's night interceptor thought we should get you. Should we wake him up?"

"I can handle it I think, though if you need someone to help calm down the scared Amentan I don't think I can do that till after I've helped Neh."

"Oh, I think they'll be fine once the laundry room's cleared out and they can re-wash things."

"Okay then."

He checks to see if Cryptophasia has any linguistic features he didn't notice earlier about the situation.

The names of other amaliens who were camping out nearby seem to be from similar linguistic sources but they seemed to have been incorporated into Cryptophasian more recently. In fact it seems like Neh's name shows an amount of linguistic drift corresponding to being separated from the group for a few hours.

It feels like there's something more going on with her name but Lucien can't figure it out right now.

"Neh's been away from the other amalien campers for a few hours, I'll know more details soon I think."

Rush rush rush.

Here's the apartment. The purple who does laundry for everybody in the building is available to be consulted but doesn't know anything much besides 'there was a bear and something moved in one of the dryers and there were clothes everywhere'.

On the way to the apartment, Lucien has finally figured out what was up with her name: it's said in really quiet tones that are hard to overhear in loud places. In particular the words "night club" and "bright lights" and "lots of people" all are harsh sounding words that would easily drown her name out. His best guess, though not one he can be certain of, is that "laundry room" would actually sound quiet in a way similar to her name.

Okay so Neh was upset by the club and went to the laundry room where he* was happier. Lucien knocks on the door, softly. 

*Neh's pronouns are inconsistent, as Neh is "hiding from view" gender.

Neh pokes his head out of the still warm but sorta cooler now clothes. He doesn't say anything.

"Hi Neh, it's Lucien."