"The human with the gun. That is a cross." This is so frustrating if she were a proper plant he'd be able to just show her who he means.

"No, no, I, um. Recognized her from the description, I just. Morgan?"

"I don't know the name." Why would he memorise the names of the crazy humans the doctor makes. Most of them don't last a decade anyway.

"Right. Um. Okay."

This seems to have neatly shut her up, actually.

The plants are presenting him with analogies. And saying this is important.

"Did the human lie?" he eventually asks.

".... not directly but. ... yes."

"Humans lie," he says, nodding. "...I'm sorry she lied. I did not tell her to."

"I. Thanks."

She's still upset.

Relatable, he gets upset for very long too even when things are no longer being actively upsetting, but for some reason this is distressing him.

He doesn't know what to do about it.

She is mostly wishing Zash were here to hug her, actually. She misses hugs. But more cerebrally, she also wants to actually talk to Morgan, hear her side of things, because. Probably the truth is complicated?? The truth is usually complicated.

One part of that makes sense, at least. Though it's not like it's possible to talk to humans. He stares at her intently and tries very, very, very hard to project to her.

Yvette appears to have no idea whatsoever. Though she does eventually notice him staring.

"Oh, um, I'm okay. Just a little sad," she assures.

...nngh.

Whatever. Working is simpler. Untangling this stuff seems like it'll take a while.

Working is simpler! And they're almost done getting their new guest settled, and honestly Yvette doesn't feel even a little bit bad about this one being stolen. She saw what was happening and, well. Look, she wants to help the humans too, but there are more sustainable ways to do that, which means more helping in the long term. Granted, uh, Nai is.... not going to let any of them do those sustainable things, but. .... she'll try to convince him, okay. She's working on it.

But once that's all squared away she does actually leave the console to go gently touch the tank that was formerly on a sand steamer.

"Sorry I can't say your name properly, but. It's nice to see you again and I'll help you feel better, okay? You did really good work and deserve to rest for a while," she says, while thinking a sort of wry 'Yeah, me too' at technically being in kind of the exact situation. Of being kind of kidnapped. Again: she's working on it.

When she returns to the console he's sitting cross-legged in the air and staring intently at her again, frowning deeply.

????

"Is... something wrong?" she asks, blinking.

"Yes. No. Maybe." Words, man, they fucking suck no matter what the Beast thinks.

"O...kay. Can I help?"

Funniest thing, she feels like they've been here before.

"Yes."

"Oh, good! How?"

Because she wants to!!!

"I don't know."

He sounds so incredibly frustrated.

"Oh." She droops a little. "Can you... describe what is wrong to me so I can maybe diagnose what is going on."

He shakes his head. "I don't know what you are."

"... Human??? I didn't realize that would be in question??"

"Are you?"