"Thanks, but how's things for you?" You grab the onion, thinking of how you'll plant it. "Is..."
 "Nitz."
 "Is Nitz any better?" You give a worried look to the diminutive Duda. It shies away from you, still over Natan's head.
 "We'll be." He says after a moment, raising a hand for Nitz to jump to. "I have to be, if I am to be a captain."
 "Hey, gimme a sec will you?" You stand and trot inside, putting the tricorn hat on. A few minutes later, you exit with your old mechanical gramophone and give it's lever a few turns.
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 "You know," You say, walking back to them. "I wish I could understand you, and moonlets."
 "Our languages aren't so far apart. I can understand them perfectly, even if I can't talk it much. I saw you made an acquaintance of two earlier?"
 "I thanked them for a favor and they insisted in paying." You take the coin from the fold of your tricorn hat, still uncomfortable with it.
 "Moonlets are a very..." He chooses the word carefully. "Faithful people. We share similar beliefs in how fair trade works, and taking gifts for what they did as employees -getting paid to do- is seen badly by them. Was there anything you wanted to tell Nitz?" He adds. "It's been understandably shy of anyone but me."