"Hunting him? Why?"

"I don't know why they're doing it. He says he has a tracker in his back that the wraith put there and he can't get it out and that's why they keep hunting him." Yup, just gonna keep giving away secrets, isn't she... it's probably fine right and also "do you think you can help with that, actually? You seem, um, like you have some military technology, I don't know if that extends to medical technology or anything though." 

"A runner... I have heard stories but I have never met one in person."

"What's a runner?"

"The stories are as she said, the wraith release certain individuals with tracking devices and hunt them. Anyone attempting to help them is killed if the wraith learn of it."

Well that sounds straightforwardly bad. Yikes! "Is there any way you can help him? He's, um, very tough," now is an extra bad time to be thinking about his muscles Jenna! "And he killed one of them earlier, I saw the dead body, but, um, I bet he probably doesn't want to keep running." 

"We have a pretty good doctor. I'd want some kind of reassurance about his safety though. And also to be untied."

"I think I might need to wait for Ronon to come back to untie you. I... don't know if I can take you if you don't mean well" probably not "but probably not, but he probably can. And I'm really new to this, and I don't think he is. Sorry. But if you do mean well" they seem to? "then I might be able to convince him of that. But maybe convince me first? Who are you? What kind of, um, military are you working for?" That's a sensible thing to ask, right? Right. 

"The good kind; we're fighting against the wraith. We've had some setbacks recently but we've hurt them a lot in the process."

"Well, that's good." He could be saying anything though he could be lying to her or hiding things. But also would he talk about setbacks if he was lying? He'd be making himself out to be much better. "What kind of setbacks, exactly?" 

"They destroyed the ancestor city we were working out of. We lost people."

Oh. "That's... I'm sorry about that." Also there goes an opportunity for her to... no, she shouldn't be thinking like that. People died, she shouldn't be imagining her walking through some ancient ancestor city full of incredible technology and figuring out how to use it because she's good at that somehow or something (she thought she'd be much smarter than everyone around but clearly she isn't so there goes that idea though she is learning everything very very fast) but instead being sad that a bunch of people died recently. "That's awful, I'm sorry." She doesn't really have a good way to help them, does she, even though she wants to. 

"Thank you. I appreciate that. Do you know when your friend is getting back?"

"I... don't. Hopefully soon? He went out for more food he said. There's no animals on this planet" and she still needs to figure out how this world or universe works but one step at a time "but there's plants and we went foraging last time so he's probably doing the same." She is babbling again. She's in an unfamiliar situation and doesn't know what she's doing or what's going on but she's babbling and probably should stop. And also find out intel (that's the word right?) about these two. "Can you, um, tell me more about where you are now? Or what kinds of things you do to fight the wraith?" And also maybe she can find out exactly what Ronon meant by a 'culling' which is very concerning sounding but she doesn't know what it means. 

"We've rescued some people from hive ships and helped evacuate people from planets under attack by the wraith." By the time of his voice she gets the impression he expects her to be impressed or surprised by his claim about the hive ships. "We also search for more ancestor technology we could use to bring the fight to the wraith. Our new base is a lot more spartan than where we were but just about anything would be and we still have good food and we're reasonably well hidden from the wraith."

Okay, so, ships mean spaceships, she's pretty sure. She can tell that she's supposed to be impressed (though she's not really sure what's involved in rescuing people from hive ships or what that means) but her knowledge is still a bit lacking to say for sure if this is really good or not. John seems to think it's pretty good at least. But searching for ancient technology and power to help fight the bad guys... "That sounds like you're doing good things!" she says. "I might want to help y'all. If you can get the tracking thing out of Ronon he might want to help out too, though I don't know for sure. But I bet we can join forces!" Is she coming off a little too eager she might be coming off a little too eager. 

"Thank you. I hope so too."

She pauses for a while. This would be a perfect time for Ronon to come back so he can talk to these people and she can help them come to an understanding and everyone can join forces but Ronon is away doing food gathering and isn't here. "I guess tell me more, if you can? Or no, wait!" there's someone else to talk to, she should talk to them too! "Hi sorry I didn't say hi before I got a bit distracted and this is all a bit weird to me and I'm sorry about it but hello. What's your name? I'm Jenna, nice to meet you." 

"I am Teyla Emmagan. You said you arrived here recently, where were you before that?"

"I, um," well what does she even say she can say what she said to Ronon she supposes (what even did she say) "I'm not really from around here. I'm from... a lot further away than here." Even though it seems like people here have spaceships or something or at least the bad guys do she's still probably from further away she's from another universe. "I came here to help though. I can learn things really fast, if you're willing to teach me." Assuming he's going to be one of her companions, which well maybe that's not true (that was the restriction right? She's not entirely sure) but it might be true. It's probably going to be true. 

"Do you mean you're from another galaxy?" Sheppard can't help but ask.

Oh no what does she say "...not... exactly?" she says. "I might as well be." Can people here travel between galaxies? If they have starships they probably can, though she remembers from science class that galaxies are supposed to be really far away. "Or even further away than that." Is she being too mysterious? She's probably being too mysterious. Oh well. What can she tell them, that a magic notebook gave her magic powers and now she's here on an adventure which so far seems to be shaping up to defeat the evil wraiths and stop them from doing cullings? She should probably not come out and say that. 

"That is very far away indeed. Did you know about the wraith before coming?"

"I... did not." Ronon knows, she might as well admit it. "I knew wherever I was going there was supposed to be something bad going on there, and I'm supposed to help out." 

"It is very brave of you to go to help people without knowing what the dangers will be. What have you been told of the wraith?"