Mneta spoke galactic common (kind of like Esperanto for space, designed to be pronounceable by most species, but unknown by planet bound civilizations) so Shyael didn't understand her.  Seeing a short pointy eared species, she thought of what races resembled that.  Fortunately there were spacefaring elves, so she had a few words of the language.  So she struggled to remember her elvish and managed to come out with a bad, but understandable elvish version of "Don't shoot.  I come in peace.  I ask for help".<br/><br/>(Mneta looks like a short, thin human except her eyes are huge, as if her kind were descended from Tarsier like primates (below), consequently almost all humanoid races view her kind as "incredibly cute.  Her skintight spacesuit might raise eyebrows in a medieval society though)<br/><br/>(Cheerwind the fairy is fine, except I've PM'ed you some differences in how I run fairies.  You'd show up at about this time in the story, but could come here or go to the ship)