Vreta’s eyes scanned the crowd to search for Freyr. It was something of a difficult task for him to spot her out among all of the other Humans, especially since he did not have an image of her on record as he usually would have for Humans he wanted to remember. His Rothian mind was not designed to pick up on Human facial features, so having images for reference could help him interact more naturally with them in social situations. The rain also presented a problem in that most of the crowd were walking around with coverings over their heads to keep them dry. Rain did not bother Vreta nearly as much as it seemed to affect Humans. His scaly skin was waterproof, so the rain slid off of him easily. 

Fortunately, it was far easier for Freyr to pick Vreta out of a crowd, so it did not take long for her to approach him and grab his attention. By that point, his program had embedded itself firmly in various corner’s of the district’s public network. In many ways, it was like a living thing in itself, maneuvering its way through the city’s software unseen and hiding in the shadows of other programs from the automated intrusion detection system. The Cradle itself might have been peer to Rothian technology, but his program was still hundreds of years more advance than anything Human-made that might try to root it out. With the access he now had, Vreta did not yet do anything disruptive. He simply had his program identify any camera or other sensor that could see or hear himself or Freyr so that he could make changes to what they observed if he deemed it necessary.

For the moment, however, Vreta did not require any secrecy. He matched her friendly approach with just as friendly of a greeting. “Hello. It is no trouble to be here. I think this is something we can both benefit from talking about.” He remarked as he started to look around the market, particularly at the stall Freyr pointed out. He did not want to rush straight into business, as some more casual conversation could be useful to obscure what they were discussing. “I shall be honest, I do not know what that is, but I am eager to try it. Coming to places like this, it is one of the things I enjoy about working in foreign space. Stepping into this market is like stepping back in time. I’m sure I could find something like it somewhere in Rothian space, but that would be no more than a novelty. This is just…a part of your city. There are many of my kind that find it dangerous just to leave Rothian worlds, but I do think it worth a little risk to really experience the galaxy. I learned as much as I could about your people’s cultures before I came here, but it is quite different to experience it in person.”