Candace nods. She takes the three of them to a few of the side rooms, revealing the compact bedrooms where they'll be sleeping. She also shows off the bath, which is essentially a bathhouse fit for a dozen people. There's a big pool for playing in, as well as quite a places with shower heads to rinse off. There's a beautiful, abstract mosaic above the main pool.

Auria isn't complaining, but this is to the point where they wonder if somehow Candance confused them for foreign royals or something.

(She still doesn't let go of her daughter, and is always keeping her son in her sight.)

The three adults are far, far more mesmerized by the pool than the mosaic. This isn't the largest amount of bath water they have seen, but it is a lot for strangers.

She grabs her phone and shows them pictures of all sorts of food. She mimes eating, and tries to get them to realize that she wants to know if they're hungry.

The haven't eaten in a while and would accept food. Liron isn't feeling like eating, but he probably should.

He definitely should.

Esdras tries to mime the concept of "people" in particular, if there are other people around.

The girl doesn't understand what Esdras could mean.

He means "people", but for what reason or in what context, she can't find out. She chooses to order soy-sauce chicken, consistently ranked the most universally-enjoyed food in the world, and waits until the cargo robot, with vinyl decals to give the impression of it being a waiter, arrives with 4 huge portions of food, all kept in strangely light metal boxes with rounded edges. She carries one of the boxes into the adults' dining room, waiting for the 3 other adults to also bring a box of food from the robot. The aroma of the soy-sauce chicken fills the air, as she opens her metal box, illustrating that the boxes have food for them to eat.

Okay, this place is full of the weirdest contraptions, but they can roll with it. Auria will try to coax her husband to eat something-

-he jumps and takes a step back as soon as someone is holding a knife.

Auria steps back startled, which startles her daughter that starts crying.

Esdras was about to try communication again, but... well, that takes precedence. He tries to calm Liron down.

The girl is weirded out for a minute, before digging into her food. Thomassian food comes in absolutely huge portions, as they usually only eat twice a day. She savors the tender chicken and perfectly-fried rice, which taste absolutely fantastic together with the soy sauce and vegetable mix. She is very deliberate about achieving the perfect combination of chicken and rice in each bite, and takes her time with the huge meal.

They are not in a position to pay a lot of attention to their host!

Liron isn't actually that hard to calm down.

(Is it weird that a baby crying is helping? It's probably a sign he is a bad father, like everyone would expect him to be).

Liron doesn't voice that, but eventually they manage to quiet down the baby.

And sit down to eat, angling so Liron doesn't have to directly see anyone holding a knife.

Eventually, she manages to finish the meal, before placing the metal box on a counter, next to the microwave. She walks out into the main room, where she turns on a hidden projector that displays an image of a happy family in front of a crudely drawn house on one of the walls of the room. Then she flips through her phone, before ending up on a language program for toddlers learning to speak and read. It begins playing, showing a mother playing with her child, pointing at toys and animals, and saying what they're named. Then the mom points at herself, and the baby says "mama".

"You learn to understand me!" the girl says, watching the language learning program next to the strangers.

It takes a moment before they realize that this isn't some kind of two-way communication and start paying attention. They aren't sure what Candance just said, but figure that it is about the light projection thing.

They all pay attention. Esdras even has the idea to repeat the words to his nephew as a way to memorize them.

By the end of the video, they know the names of all sorts of animals, how to tell someone that you feel hungry or cold, how to introduce yourself and tell people your name, and how to ask to be allowed to play with other kids. "Can you tell me your name?" the girl asks and looks at the adults, before glancing over to the babies.

They can tell their names, yes.

Except the babies, they are too young, so they are referred to just "baby", "daughter" or "son".

It's bad luck to do it before a week, and they had enough bad luck.

Eventually, tries to work to teach Candance that not only are they called such, their family name is Blacksword. Auria is a "Mama", Liron is a "Papa", their children are their son and daughter, because they have the same parents, and so on. And also Esdra is Auria's brother. They are family. Then pointing at Candance he makes inquiring sounds. "Candance family here?"

"Yes, Candace family here. Candace big family here! But we fear you making us sick, so wait. And clean."

"Sick?" Was that in the light projection thing? "Clean? Ah, clean." he mimes scrubbing his arms.