"That's weird... why would people care about when you sleep?" And after crossing a bridge a bit in front of a small waterfall they've reached the observatory.

"Eh, complicated reasons, many of them unreasonable, if you really want me to rant about it for a bit I can but I won't subject you to it if you don't really want to hear it," she says. 

She waits for cues from Mica on whether to wait or knock or just kinda walk in.

(Also she really wants to subtly fiddle with something, magically, and looks around to see if there's anything in particular she could fiddle with.)

Mica walks right through the open entrance. There is a picture of a flag planted in cratered ground to the right, a picture of four people of Mica's species to the left and a large statue of some other species is straight ahead.

She is not going to start messing with the - pixels? pigments? how do they depict stuff, anyway - of the pictures. But, like, any which way, it seems Rude to mess with stuff these folks clearly value. She uses her aesthetic-aspect power to get rid of the dust on the floor and in the air, though, that seems probably fine.

Is there a New Person and/or a Person Previously Presented anywhere in here?

(She has Proper Pictorial Priorities and Propounds Pandering to Punctual Pun-dits... This is deeply easy to do with the Ring and a Practically Perfect memory so this occupies some back half of her mind while she stands and takes in what's happening.)

There isn't anyone she's met so far pictured. Mica races up to the statue and circles around it. After a short while she speaks. "Huh... I was expecting more from the statue than that... I guess it's cool to see what Nomai really looked like but it's not as cool as seeing a real living breathing alien like you."

"Yeah, it tends to be cooler to see living things than just depictions of them. I hope we can find out why they're dead." Mental check of everything they've said to her. "- Or, wait, do you know why they're dead? I was background assuming you don't."

Hopefully she can do something about that, restore these Nomai or find out they're really not dead after all, or something like that. 

"We don't know for sure, but something seems to have killed a lot of them all around the same time. Maybe there are living Nomai out there somewhere though."

"Yeah, I hope it's not all of them. But for now, I guess we can only hope." The phrase 'existential risk' floats through her their mind.

They vaguely look around for a place to sit, simultaneously 'pulling out' (actually conjuring, but it's completely unnoticeable) a small, roughly rectangular device. The glassy black side of it lights up as Ellume does some inscrutable things with it.

(Here, it's mostly a more thematically fitting Ring-interface than holograms or simply talking out loud. But it also has standard features of smartphones like random little phone games. Of course, they're all ad-free, which makes it a bit unrealistic, but you know what? Sometimes reality is stupid and needs to be improved.)

"Yeah... I hope so too. There's lots more exhibits to see if you'd like." Mica walks past the statue and continues into the main exhibits room.

Ellume follows, fiddling with the rectangle for a bit, then putting it back in the pocket it (supposedly) came from.

Mica leads them to the right and out another door.

There are three tree stumps. Above the left one there's a shard of something vaguely crystalline that is floating above it.

"This is the coolest exhibit. This rock floats and for some reason if nobody is looking at it it teleports."

"Huh! Does 'nobody is looking' include non-person objects that can record stuff, or are recordings how you know it teleports?" 

They take out their device again and point it at the floating rocks, walking around to catch them from many different angles.

(That's their way of requesting Ring to discreetly scan the rocks and stumps. Is this magic, technology, or Sufficiently Advanced Technology, Which Is Indistinguishable From Magic?)

"I don't know you could test it."

The shard is not technology, depending on how Ring classifies things it probably counts as magic.

They raise their eyebrows slightly at that scan result. "Huh."

(Is it powerful magic?)

"Okay, sure, I'll test it. Turn away?"

They turn away from the stump as well and close their eyes, but hold their device such that the "camera" has a clear line of sight back to it.

(They tell Ring to watch for a bit, then to stop watching and transform the "phone" into an actual phone that runs on pure tech with a small flash of light (visible only if one is looking at the phone), wait a while, and transform back with a flash before Mica or anyone turns back.)

The crystal seems like it is or was part of something. It's also emitting a field of something that seems to be trying to apply its magical effects to what's around it but it's too weak to be effective.

The crystal is also emitting a radio signal. It sounds almost like a choir of voices wordlessly singing.

The crystal doesn't move while Ring is running the phone as a part of themself. The crystal does move while the phone is pure technology.

Once they're done testing, Ellume watches the video. (Mica can look as well if she wants.) How exactly does the crystal move?

The moment nobody is looking at it the crystal disappears. It reappears above the center stump exactly when Ring starts watching again.