(i'm assuming you're speaking slowly to her so she can keep up, and...)<br/>She flips through her notes as you speak, and nods as if she's getting the hang of the translation.  "We are almost debilitated by the loss of our technology, uh, gadgets.  We had automatic translators that worked as fast as we can talk."  She pulls out her laser and hands it to you.  "Hold this handle, aim down the barrel and push the button to fire.  It used to be able to kill a person but now it can barely light paper on fire.  My dagger and club were the only weapons we had that weren't similarly disabled.  But I have hand to hand combat training."  She looks at her white outfit and gestures at it.  "This is supposed to show openness, that I have nothing to hide, but it sticks out like a sore thumb.  I can turn it inside out so it's mostly black if that would help hiding, but I'd have to strip almost naked to change if you're both ok with that?"