"Nice to meetcha, Alacruun." Aside from, you know, everything about it. Alex pauses, rolls back the sleeves of her coat a bit more, and rubs down her arms and hands with snow. Again, not idea. Doing this too many times could just make her numb and her fingers not too effective, but not having gloves and not washing her hands just feels wrong.

"So, I got a couple questions. First of all: do you have humans wherever you came from, and if yes, do you know if your body works roughly the same way theirs do? Anatomy-wise, anything like that?"

It's a big ask, she realises. In all fairness, a lot of humans back home might know the names of things, without being able to say much at all about what stuff actually does, short of consulting google or wikipedia. "We don't have all the stuff I'd normally use to hand, but I'm gonna take a crack at climbing outta here sometime soon, and maybe if we're lucky we can track down medical supplies to do a better job of cleanin' it."