It's not Olidammara who answers the call, but the call is answered. Ecks blinks at the young man (human, male, unarmed, physically slight, strange clothing), puzzled and a little hurt by his response to her appearance. Has it happened again? She glances down at her own hands and sees that yes, it has happened again. "Oh," she says. "I meant to be disguised."

She feels the top of her own head and receives more bad news: the hat is not nonfunctional, but actually gone. She adds this to the growing list of puzzling, troubling things to be resolved. "What is this place?" she asks, attention back on the human.