[Well, civility was a good start, it put her at ease to a degree. Most of the time, if a human was going to preemptively ruin Lark's opinion of them, they would have done it by now.]

Well met, Riona. I am Lark. Yes, It's only been a few days for me. Just long enough to understand I don't understand anything here.

[She gestured around them.]

At least, this I can deal with.

[There was something else about this woman. Something familiar but she couldn't place it, like a sensation from a dream and it made her curious. There was hardly a way to ask about it that didn't sound crazy as she was positive they'd never met before. It wasn't that kind of familiar.]

Have you been among these people long?