"If you want to snap the binding you might be able to do that just by intending to! If you don't want to do that or it doesn't work, you could try giving me a task and saying I can make stuff relevant to that task, that works for most likely bindings - I assume you cannot trivially get ahold of a copy of the circle for me to read now that the sun's up?" And hot. That's a hot sun.

"No, the bug guts are all smeared now. A task... We task you with making a glass of water? And in order to do that you can make a glass of water."

Glass of water?

Glass of water!

"There you go, that works!"

They fly in a circle and buzz happily before settling back down. "Yay!"

"Do you want to drink it or shall I?"

"Oh, this body is a fake holographic illusion on top of a bunch of bugs." To demonstrate this they disperse into a cloud of bugs and recoalesce two feet to the left. "You can have it."

Glug. "How do you do the holographic illusion, that's pretty neat."

"Bioluminescence and wings and stuff. It was neat to figure out. Mr. Knives helped us. He's one of the plants we mentioned."

"I think the relationship between the species you refer to and plants as I know them is small to nonexistent."

"What are plants as you know them? Flora? We don't have that at all! The humans lost all of it when they crashed onto this planet. Well, most of it. Then the rest of it died."

"What are they eating - and how are they planning to breathe long term, or do they have that completely mechanized -"

"Oh, we produce oxygen for them. ...well, for us, but they can breathe it just the same. They're eating what their plants make them!"

"Are their plants the energy-converter beings you thought I might resemble? I guess they sound nice to have."

"The humans would all have been dead decades ago without them and that would've been no fun."

"Do all of you like humans all right so long as they stay out of the caves?"

"Oh we don't mind them in the caves, we just don't want to make it easy for them. There's gotta be a challenge, you know?

"Some of us don't care for humans, though. Especially the ones that live pretty far. We're not sure if the us on the other side of the planet even know about the humans yet, or remember them most of the time."

"Y'all need the Internet."

"The internet is great! The humans don't have good enough infrastructure for it anymore but we're super excited for when they do. Assuming they don't all die."

"Well, I can fix that, if you wanna let me. Why would they all die?"

"They're consuming their plants at an unsustainable rate! So says Mr. Knives."

"That sucks! Do they not have birth control or are the plants just finite resources? Or are they being dumb, that's also possible."