You are not like me, friend! You can still go to planets. You can still meet new lifeforms, speak, shout, love! Nada and

You are not like me, friend! You can still go to planets. You can still meet new lifeforms, speak, shout, love! Nada and Polo would be killed for going so far!

You must learn more words. You must know how to make yourself heard, Traveller! You are our only friend.

Polo claims that they cannot teach me language directly, that their files on alien languages have been damaged.

I wonder if I am being manipulated somehow. The Gek watches me with an earnest and friendly sorrow, awaiting my discovery of more words. It is almost as if they want to tell me something...