Wave eyeballed the note paper, and shook her head. "Don't be surprised," she told him. "You're talking about other dimensions as well as planets."

She gestured at Ronnae, "I don't know what the green girl can do, but I'll write up some translation software. I'll need some speech and text samples to use as a baseline, and then I can probably reuse a heuristic algorithm from the ancient Echidna module..."

She plucked the gem off of her necklace, flicking on a holographic screen, which she began to tap at and flick about, mind already on a task that clearly wasn't her actual cleaning job.