Stargazing

As the Moon Prince talks to Gertrude about the Tongue-Stan, a sudden noise comes from the edge of the roof. Then another and another. Something squishy from below, slowly probing the roof tiles. *pop* *pop* pop*. Eight wet, slithering protrusions latch onto the tiles and pull something from underneath. A shadow moves closer, its shape made visible barely by the faint light of the stars...

"Tongue-ztan? Ztars we call..." Bremb proceeds to make unpronounceable sounds of zer language as he pulls zemself up to the roof. "Ztars neptunians uze; great zea find. No ah!" Bremb scratches zer head with two tentacles as he struggles to find the words. "Human zay like: Ztars point great zea; Call sky-fish."

Bremb looks up at the sky to check the lock box constellation Gertrude was pointing at. However, having 8 tentacles, Neptunian locks are not similar to the ones on Earth.

"Zat one? Gertrude feelz same like propelling octptus?" Zey draw a line across the lock box constellation: an octopus' head outside the box, the eight tentacles forming a wider round shape underneath. "Gestrude propellez like zis" Bremb makes humanly impossible gestures with zeir tentacles, trying to encourage Gestrude to move forward. "In water, izier"

"Favoritz?" Bremb looks up the sky considering the constellations. Zer tentacles wave around a cluster, drawing some sort of shape in the cosmic emptiness. "Bremb like much the... how zay. Fried? Fried. Chicken." He points towards a constellation in the shape of a bird, wings spread and rising in the night sky.

He then turns to the Moon prince "Chicken eatten in the moon, too?"

Bremb freezes in place, shifting colors as the moon prince does his impression of a lunefowl. Lacking any motivation, zey sort of slowly mimic the moves with zer tentacles as zey can only assume this is some sort of cultural performance common amongst the highest ranks of the moon's nobility. Not very impressive by Neptunian standards, but it is always useful to learn these cultural quirks when you're traveling across space...

"Lunefowl have tasty zound, but lookz catch complicated ..." zey said as zey pick some flat device and excitedly show it to Gertrude. The strange rectangular metallic piece which produced a mysterious light as if by magic. After your eyes got used to it, you can easily see colored holographic squares inside. Bremb's tentacles rapidity and methodically swiped, pressed and clicked in all places until zey found what zey were looking for. "Here. In Neptune. ZpaceEats. Bring food from zky. We eat. Gertrude like zen eye sand worm with zome spice?"

"Zure. In galaxy zomewhere. There iz place. You want from what, which star?" four of Bremb's tentacles point at different constellations waiting for Gertrude to specify where these. "Lock. Box? Good place for lunch. Box."

Bremb squeezes as puffs and Gertrude takes on zeir advanced technological gadget. "Zure zure. Dez-k peoplez. Zey like paper." Bremb points to a new constellation in the sky. "Cook great. Star spice top, flying nitrogen snake, larva. Order me."

"Klingtug..." Bremb takes a moment trying to understand Gertrude's question. "Oh! Klynegftoug... yez. Meaning iz bear, cloze yez. Pickled. Zpecialty. Very good." Zey grab zeir device back once the order is placed.

"Zhadows?" Zey try to touch Shade with their tentacles while playing with the moon light to add more shadow shapes to it, mostly basic bunnies and Ooctopuses really. "In great zea Neptune, no light much, zo no zhadow. Zhadow is nice. Take with me back. If. Can "