Delta smiled and shook her hand. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Isabella. I cannot say I am familiar with Scirland, but I have met travelers from many different places and have proud to call them friends." Well, some of them, anyway. Others he'd been glad to see the backside of.

He looked a little surprised that she didn't know electronics, but reminded himself that there were plenty of Immune back on Proles that had come from equivalents of what was to him the distant past. "They are devices such as the data point we saw on entry, and appear to have once been vital to the function of this ruined city. Electricity such as from lightning can be stored in a device called a battery and then used to power any number of useful systems, such as heating or cooling buildings. More practically for field research, they can also be used to store vast amounts of information in something the size of a small book."