"What makes a hybrid kind, if no parents?"

"We just happen. Nobody knows how."

"What is it being an elemental?"

"...what is it like?" she suggests.

"Yes, what is it like?"

"I... haven't ever not been an elemental."

"What do elementals do - do you know many others -"

"I know some others... we do magic and fly and... stuff..."

"Stuff?"

"Stuff." She squirms uncomfortably.

"I don't know the word."

"Stuff," she says in Maurabel's language.

"Uh. Okay. Is there something better to talk."

"I don't know I'm not good at this," Penumbra says helplessly.

"Talk about the dance show?"

"...it wasn't fair that they got rid of Sasa because the lamp fell on her, that wasn't supposed to happen."

"They got rid of Sasa because the lamp fell on her?"

"Yeah. She missed a step, but only because of that."

"Wasn't fair. Get rid of lamp person maybe."

"Yes, that would have made more sense."

"Why Sasa good?"

"Why was she good. She - danced happily."

"Elementals dance?"

"Sometimes."

"Do you?"