"Just because we have extra rooms doesn't mean I can just- stick her in one," Emma objects. "And there's other Lalindars here, what if they ran into her? She can't exactly explain herself."

She looks over at the paper she's been presented with. She can just barely guess that it should be a map, but she recognizes nothing on it. No Welce, no Malinqua, no Soche-Tas, no Thiyec. Nothing that even resembles the geography of the borders of any of those places.

"Um. We're not that far from the library," she says uncertainly. "I could show her the map in there, I guess." She points at the map- carefully not at the city-dot that seems to excite her, that would be cruel- and gestures for the girl to follow.