Telaliel blushes slightly at her accident, but nods quickly to the captains words, "sorry...yes, I'm fine.  Simply distracted.  A number of things have been coming together and...well, I am somewhat distracted."  She smiles gently and enters the stateroom at his beckoning.<br/><br/>Once they're in the cabin she gestures him to one of the sofas in the stateroom as she paces for a few moments more, her ears bouncing once as she comes to some sort of mental conclusion at last.  "There is something I've been meaning to speak with you of...well, my father, I'm sure, intended to discuss it later this evening, but things have been so quick-paced that none of us truly had much of a chance to discuss such matters in the way they deserve.  And with the way that things are progressing between us, your company and your EDF, I think that it may be that if such time is not going to happen naturally, perhaps it would be that we must make the time for them."<br/><br/>"Did you not consider it somewhat unusual to encounter another bipedal, bilaterally symmetrical, frankly humanoid species so near to your own world?  We were, ourselves, somewhat surprised to see your people, though perhaps not for the same reasons.  It wasn't until I saw your admiral Amelia and her ship that I truly believed that it could be possible.  The EDF logo behind her, an image of Terra with a rather crude, ancient daughter-tongue of Ælpheran saying approximately 'to guard Terra'..."  She shakes her head slightly, finally collapsing into the chair opposite the sofa the captain sat on and taking a deep breath before continuing on.<br/><br/>"I...cannot say how many terran years it may have been.  By our reckoning it has been 9,835 years since the Allies brought us here.  The island we were one was destined for destruction, and we contacted the Allies...they came and brought a number of us to Ælphera.  They said that there were changes they had to make, so that we could live here until they returned.  After the first of us and settled on the world, no others came.  We anticipated hearing from the Allies again...we contacted them, but nothing was ever heard back.  All that remained was a monument they put down at the same place the first Ælpheran's lived.  That monument stands still in the middle of my family home in the capital.  Etched upon it in the ancient mother-tongue it says 'here landed, here settled, thence from Terra, thenceforth Ælphera'.  It is from the date of that monument we count time still."<br/><br/>She shakes her head slightly, smirking a bit, "to find that others of Terra survived.  Not only survived, but thrived even to surpass us!  We had convinced ourselves that all the others must have been slain by some cataclysm.  Or, when you appeared, that perhaps the Allies had settled others on another world, as we could not recall what an unaltered Terran might appear.  Tis almost a sadness to think how near we were, yet how far.  And yet, I suspect, our little tribe is lost in the annals of that great, ancient world.  Yet it appears at least one of the daughters of Atlas left a lingering touch even now.  Did they ever leave tell of their mother island, Atlantis?"