That's probably fine, how big a bunch?

About a dozen?

He'll let the egg farm people know!

Lucien is quite happy about his ability to schedule things for tomorrow despite everything being really hard today. Next up - explaining to amaliens how to deal with visiting the city! ... Would have been great if he did that yesterday actually. 

The amalien campers are starting to be excited to visit the city - Lucien makes it sound like an adventure that they can all go on together. They are a bit confused about the concepts of "traffic" and "little amentans who look like amaliens but are actually really young" but they are smart and listen to Lucien when he tells them these things are important to know about. They are sorta nervous about all the rules and loud noises but have their earmuffs (which are so soft!) and will get to be in a room just for them. 

Lucien is pretty satisfied with how well his talk went - other amaliens can get distracted but he's much more used to explaining things to them than to Amentans. Still, he's excited about talking to the mayor in the afternoon since the mayor is sorta like him in ways lots of amaliens arn't. 

The mayor is there on time for the meeting in his office! He offers Lucien a tray of tiny sandwiches. "Bit of excitement last night, I hear!"

Tiny sandwiches! Lucien noms one that looks vegetarian.

"Mhm. It ended okay but was sorta hard at first cause people weren't used to each other."

The tiny sandwiches have pickles and butter on them.

"It's probably a lot to get used to, things like laundry machines and nightclubs!"

Lucien is confused that these things go together this well yet somehow they do!

"And teleporting bears and night aliens."

"Yup, we're not set up for teleporting bears at all. Are there a lot of teleporting monsters or just the one?"

"Hm. There are a few incorp-oreal monsters, like Cryptophasia, but I can't think of any that are really teleporting Monsters right now."

He searches his head for anything relevant.

"There's an incorporeal one that can form different bodies that might sort of count as a teleporting monster? I'll ask around and find out if there's anything else that is as teleporty as Meow, the black bear monster, is."

"Meow, huh, what a name. Is Meow always with Neh?"

"Yeah, they're very close friends. Sometimes that happens with monsters and amaliens."

"I've noticed! How do they communicate?"

"Monsters like Meow can often understand a little bit of what's going on around them and gesture at things they think, but can't figure out very complicated things usually. Some Monsters are much smarter like Cryptophasia or the Aurorite. Some don't seem to think at all, and are just sorta like plants with special things. Some are sorta hard to tell about, like Fluffeld."

His sore back is cause of a not-thinking monster but he doesn't mention that.

"Fluffeld is the one that looks like a hornless dog, that the landing party met?"

"Yeah. He shows up at important places sometimes and seems to want to be friendly and helpful but doesn't do anything that's obviously very smart."

"We have intelligence tests, I wonder if any of the monsters would want to take one some day. Anyway, my overnight report tells me the plan is for Neh to only teleport into specific places in the city, or to get out, and otherwise walk while here? How many places do you suppose she needs, and what sort of places?"

"I think she will need enough places that she can choose some to explore and not run out super quickly? Though we can also give her more when she has explored a bunch of them already. I think the important thing is she feels like no one is trying to make her go only places they want her to go - she doesn't like that."

"Has that happened before?"

"Um. You didn't want to talk about difficult things happening to amaliens, I thought?"

"- I don't want to try to figure out how to broadcast an interview about fishing amaliens out of a volcano, but this seems different to me."

"Um... it's not so different."

"Well, if it's not then we won't broadcast an interview about Neh's history either. But I would like to know what the trouble is in this case."