Genna is trying to keep everyone warm enough. And to not sway on her feet. (She didn't enlist, but she can do that much). She should have slept more at the hospital. At some point.

(Anais has had a bit less time with the kids outside her body, and is also great at sleep deprivation. On the receiving end.)

"Does still look like an elevator from over there, officer.

On one hand, if someone wanted us trapped in a box they could have just put us in the box. And here we are, trapped on a roof." 

On the other hand, that doesn't mean things can't get worse than this. She nods.

"I could go down the stairs, try to call the elevator from there. If there's somewhere for that. Ride up and get you."

She thinks about it. (She doesn't like thinking about it, but. That's what she's for.) Nods again. 

Then she will try going down the trapdoor stairs.

The trapdoor stairs lead into a narrow corridor, with many doors leading off from it. Including the elevator door, quite clearly. It probably does, in fact, work as an elevator?

She is not at this moment going to start knocking on random doors, but she definitely noticed their presence. 

Alright, step 1: check for obvious 'you are on this floor' symbology around and memorize it. Step 2: she can't read any symbology but is the up button above the down button or are they represented with arrows or anything convenient like that? Step 3: call the elevator.

The elevators use up and down buttons, with the sides of an equilateral triangle pointing up and above a similar triangle pointing down. She can't find any signs indicating which floor she's on, though. Until she steps into the elevator, and sees two... symbols, on the LCD screen, indicating which floor she's on. She recognizes one of the symbols on the elevator buttons, and notices that the second symbol is one step below another symbol... presumably, the symbol of the floor that the roof is on?

Convenient!

She half-steps into the elevator again. LCD screens work for her just fine. Interesting how they seem to do this; she's not 100% sure of the details but she's interested. Was that second pair of symbols by any chance one she would have seen on the LCD screen when she was on the roof? If it is, she presses that pair, and if nothing unexpected suddenly happens, steps fully into the elevator with the air of someone cheerfully jumping from a challenging height.

Yes, indeed, pressing the pair of symbols that she saw on the LCD screen on the roof, leads to the elevator taking her up one floor, where she's able to get a look at Genna as it opens again after heading up to the roof.

Like Anais had pointed out, if someone wanted them dead, or imprisoned, or most other things, there's more reason to think they could have done it before this. She's still relieved when the elevator opens on Anais.

Between the two of them and Anais holding the elevator, they can get everyone into it. And try to shield the babies from the light, and mostly calm down Moon and Tuesday again after. (Light-coming has managed to sleep through all of this too. Was she herself like that as a baby? Not any way to know.)

On one hand, the obvious place to go is all the way down, since they know for sure there are people there. On the other hand she doesn't know for sure how to tell what buttons mean that, and also then they'll be outside again.

Somewhat incredibly, this actually seems like a practical use case for pressing all the elevator buttons. She does that.

Moon apparently likes the sensation of elevators. (Tuesday does not!)

The elevator heads down maybe 3 or 4 floors, before opening and revealing a woman, dressed in a practical all-white outfit and wearing a mask with a transparent film, walking around. She turns and looks at Genna and Anais with confusion, instinctively waving at them.

If the mask is a signifier that's going to be pretty weird, though she's not getting a role read yet so she doesn't even know whose signifier it would be. No collar, no bracelet-cuffs, no anything else like that, that's the only kind of thing that even has a strong preponderance of going one way and mostly not the other that she remembers. 

Well, no reason for them to prefer any people they encounter over any other people they might encounter, yes reason to hurry up. She looks to Genna, partially because appearances.

She knows less about role signifiers across the world, but she knows they're not the same everywhere. They're not even the same in all the neighboring countries. Of course she doesn't know the etiquette here. She takes a non-threatening this-is-mine stance. Nods to Anais. (She knows what Anais is doing, and she doesn't like it, but even everything else aside the ways etiquette goes wrong for doms is worse and there's nothing she can do about it being true.) 

She stops the elevator with her body again, bows to Genna, then bows to woman. (She has no information about their greeting norms other that waving like that may be part of some of them somehow, but she's had international and historical etiquette and she is not off the top of her head coming up with many places where bowing was disrespectful or threatening as opposed to just not the local thing.)

"Giving regard, my mistress and I and our newly-born children were brought here against her will in a way she and I had not known existed. May I ask where she and we find ourselves?" No she's not really expecting the woman to understand her, but who knows maybe they have universal translators or magic translation or cameras and omniglots. 

She is just confused by Genna's gesturing. She also has no idea whatsoever about what Anais is saying. There's a probably a minute of two of silent, awkward waiting. Then she closes her eyes and tries thinking about what to do, noting the babies that the strangers are carrying. Finally, she makes her decision. She grabs a phone from her pocket, starts a very quick phone call, and steps into the elevator with the 2 strangers.

She pushes a pair of buttons, the elevator rapidly taking them down probably 15 or so stories, before they end up in another corridor quite like the one that they came from. She motions for Genna and Anais to follow her, as she opens door, revealing an incredibly spacious and comfortable bedroom, with a crib tucked against one of the bed's corners. She motions for them to enter, smiling and trying to be as reassuring as possible.

They don't interrupt. 

Tuesday interrupts and causes most of the two minutes to be less than silent, at which point Moon joins in with that. 

But no one expects etiquette off babies, that one's universal. She takes them both, since one of them should have their hands free and now that there's a person here already seeing both of them that should be Genna. Shh-shh-shh. (Looks like no universal translators or magic everyone has, omniglots behind cameras and other more specialized individuals to be determined.)

(You know she'd never really thought about whether babies would be obviously babies on sight even if the locals are really human-looking elemental spirits who reproduce with spores or something. It feels like it would be obvious, but it would feel that way wouldn't it.)

Still no role read but in etiquette class they had some movies selected for that, so she knows it ever happens even without possibilities of elemental spirits. She keeps being obvious about the checking-with-Genna and otherwise goes with what the local woman seems to be gesturally suggesting.

She had less comprehensive etiquette class and not getting the role read feels much more strange, but today it's still many steps down, in feeling that way. Fortunately, one basic standard is, to her knowledge, basically universal across all etiquettes and roles - they give the local space in the elevator. She tries a little to figure out something from how the local is gesturing, but she's not surprised that she can't. She can't even be sure the local has realized they're not both the same role-side, or who is who, for all that Anais is doing to try to show it.

She answers Anais's silent checks. She goes where is being shown to them.

She can't help the bite of fear when she sees what's in the room. That's not practical - most people don't take children away for experimentation. Even Anais's household would never have tried to give another household's children away for it. And it's not helpful. They can't run as they are and they can't fight as they are and this is absolutely obvious so there isn't very much reason to deceive them.

Unfortunately, how doms can show gratitude, let along to someone of unclear role, is not universal at all and even she knows that. She does her best to be obvious about indicating for Anais to do that.

Does this building apparently being at least partially hotel indicate that whatever put them there might have been more friendly, she hasn't an idea.

(Does high-class etiquette cover bowing while literally holding babies, absolutely). She bows again. "Giving regard, my mistress gives gratitude for the hospitality." (Etiquette practices without knowing role: also covered! She can complain about all sorts of things in etiquette class, but not so much comprehensiveness.)

The woman shrugs after hearing Anais speaking again, and raises her hands in a gesture of confusion and uncertainty. Then she walks around the bedroom, opening a door leading into a large bathroom. It has a positively huge changing table, together with a shower in an unusually large shower cabinet, a toilet, and a pair of sinks. She nods at the two adults, before tapping on her phone.

She shows them an image: it depicts a weary-looking kangaroo embracing a baby kangaroo with both arms, surrounded by other kangaroos holding all sorts of baby equipment: bottles, wipes, diapers, pacifiers, baby clothes and everything else. They're clearly meant to be supporting the weary one with her hands full with the baby. She taps her phone a few more times, revealing a picture showing an exhausted mother handing off her baby to an obviously caring nurse who embraces it lovingly in both of her arms. Then she nods at the two adults again.