Fere tries to punch the magic snake in its weirdly reflective face. It turns out this doesn’t work at all but solves the majority of her problems anyway.
Somewhere other than Sesat, a very skinny person appears. She has facial tattoos, what might once have passed for a short dress, and a spectacularly awful haircut.
There are also commercials! For beer, for a credit card, for insurance, for McDonald's.
...What... are... those. It looks like one of them might be food? Food is good. Why is Brian looking at pictures of it, though? Now she really wants the mystery food and can’t have it.
She’s kind of visibly distressed about the McDonald's commercial.
"...uh, are you okay?" asks Brian, which she presumably can't understand.
Oh no! Brian is asking something! Why isn’t he asking Isabella? Maybe it's not important enough? What is Fere supposed to do? Oh no!
He gives her a quizzical look. The McDonald's ad ends and the baseball game resumes.
She just shrugs, baffled. If they're not going to succeed at communicating then she'll just... try to figure out the rules of the game.
They're demonstrating them as gamely as they can.
By the time the final inning is wrapping up Isabella pings her again. [I no longer have a broken leg! How are you doing?]
[Yeah, I fell down the stairs. Hospital was a little backed up today so it took me a while to see the mage even though I have the good insurance. Questions comments concerns?]
Even though Brian orders Jackson around, that's... fake, so Brian might actually be the less powerful person, and Jackson or Isabella might turn on him and stop letting him give orders at any moment. So Fere has to think through what she says about his behavior really carefully. Only she also has no idea what Isabella and Jackson want from Brian so she doesn't know what to say. Hm.
[All the stuff around this building is weird. I don't know what most of it is. Brian gave me something to eat and that was really good, though.]
[That makes sense. Any words you picked up you want a more thorough explanation of?]
[Device that picks up on and displays recorded forms of moving visual and audio media.]
[Real things and fake things. News, education, but mostly entertainment.]
[You can point the TV at different sets of content and go for whichever kind you're in the mood for.]
[Whatever Brian's watching, he could have used the TV to watch a different thing, he gets to pick.]
[Do you mean, how does he learn what's available to choose from, or what actions does he take to direct the TV toward his choice.]
[There's published lists of schedules, or he might just go through all the possible channels to see if any of them look good. And he probably has a device with buttons on it to send a signal to the TV. I don't actually know that much about how TVs work inside though.]
[I don't actually know what about that might be most impressive to someone from your context.]
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