"You'll hold the door?"

"Ahh, yes. I'm thinking of staying here kind of as a doorstop, because it seems like an awesome opportunity to meet people! You go on ahead." Candace leads Karasauriu to the way she came into thomassia, and gingerly holds the door open.

And Karasauriu heads through. What's on the other side?

Many, many tall buildings, surrounding a fairly small park. There are occasionally a few people walking around. Looking around reveals that it's near the outskirts of town. It's maybe an hour or so before noon.

Wow.

Aaaalso this excursion seems under-discussed.

Karasauriu heads back in. "How long do you feel up to holding the door for, and would you be willing to write me some useful phrases so I can make a phrasebook?"

"Well, I'd be fine to spend a night here? Just tell my mom that I've decided to sleep over at a friend's house."

Candace returns to the bar, asking it for a phrasebook that's useful for Karasuriu. "I am from another dimension, I am unfamiliar with this language, I wish to have you communicate via pictograms, I wish to be employed" and about as many other phrases as she manages to brainstorm. Including "your daughter is currently sleeping at someone else's house and you don't need to worry about her safety." Hopefully, this is enough to let Karasauriu get into a proper language education program, after asking around and getting oriented.

Karasauriu jots translations down for once the phrasebook isn't in the translation effect.

"So, how do I go about finding your mom? That sounds difficult, it seems like there are a lot of people in this city."

"Well, I'll call her and she'll be waiting for you on the other side? I think that'd work." Candace grabs her phone from her waistband, tapping the buttons so she can call her mom over. "Mom? I'm at that escape-room place. I met someone who could really use help from you. Can you drive over and get her? She can sleep in my room for tonight; I'll be staying with someone else, for now. Love you like always!"

"She should be headed over! Just wait, and you'll see her car show up."

"What does her car look like?"

"It's a big, three-row minivan! It seats 9 with lots of cargo space even with all seats up! It's huge!"

It takes around 10 minutes for the vehicle to show up. It really is as large as Candace said, and flat in the front, making it very boxy. A woman walks out of it. "Who might you be?", she asks Karasauriu.

"I'm Karasauriu. Your daughter said your area was taking immigrants, and I'm interested."

"Well, we're happy to have you here! I can take you to Candace's home. What are your thoughts on work?"

She opens the sliding doors to the second row of seats, revealing a spacious row of seats with a very large amount of legroom. They're covered in an incredibly soft and breathable material, that almost feels like a fleece blanket.

"I'm happy to work at a reasonably safe task I know or can be taught how to do. What's your name?"

"You're flexible, aren't you? My name is Brenda." 

"There are a lot of possible improvements over my current situation."

Karasauriu leaves Bar, waving to Candace who's still at the door. She gets in the … car, and sits in a seat. If there's anything more complicated to do than that she doesn't know how to do it.

Brenda quietly opens the doors from her front, before starting her drive home. It doesn't take particularly long before finding the apartment building where Brenda, Candace and the others live. It takes up essentially the entire city block, with a relatively narrow street in front of it, leading into the underground parking garage. Brenda opens the wide, glass sliding door at the entrance, walking towards one of the many elevators in the first floor lobby.

"We'll be taking you up soon. I'll just have to park the car first."

The elevator is square, and fairly large. The door waits open for Karasauriu, until Brenda returns and walks her in.

She can't actually parse that speech in realtime and isn't going to try transcribing it if Brenda doesn't seem to think it's important.

From a slight distance, this looked like a lot of building.

From closer, it really looks like a lot of building.

She follows Brenda.

The elevator starts moving up fairly quickly; it doesn't take long before Brenda uses a key to open a door right in front of the elevator, and the two of them enter what looks like a classroom, with children running around. There isn't any studying happening at the moment, just play. There are several corridors leading off from the classroom; Brenda walks down one of them, taking Karasauriu to Candace's room. "You sleep here", Brenda says, slowly opening the door. It looks like a dorm, with a king-size bed against the opposite wall. "But you learn, so you can work." she then says. She points to the phrasebook.

Karasauriu will pull out the phrasebook and check some things.

"I sleep here." She gestures at the bed.

"I learn." She gestures at the phrasebook.

"I can work." She mimes spinning thread, looks momentarily frustrated, then mimes holding a baby.

Brenda nods. "Not many people like doing that! So they'll let you." Brenda takes Candace's tablet, placed onto a desk, and puts it into Karasuriu's hands. "That teaches you language!" Cynthia taps a few buttons, before ending up on a children's language learning course. An enthusiastic woman explains the names of animals, family members, and colors! "Especially with book."

She'll watch the screen and try to cross-reference things with the book. How fast is the woman talking?

The woman in the videos is mostly talking at thomassian speed, which is to say incredibly fast. But she does take the care to say the keywords of sentences extra slowly, wanting to guarantee that any listeners can hear at least one word.

…well, she can try to keep up with doing whatever combination of using the phrasebook and using the illusion screen she's supposed to be doing, but she doesn't have that much dictionary and this is going pretty fast. She may look somewhat confused.

"Well, kids talk to moms! Use the main words. Repeat what's said." Brenda taps the pause button, and turns on the subtitles, pointing at them. Then she rewinds the video a few sentences, using the bar under the video player. "Read what's under. Find in phrasebook!"