The suns are setting in the distance when you step into view of Crater Camp (which is what you've come to call it). The rest of the Aliens seem more relieved at the safe return of most of their own, rather than shocked at your sudden appearance, but this soon calms down and they come to realize what's just happened.
You're sent a escort, oddly equipped with thick padding you assume to be some sort of armor, and long tubes of shining stone, All with handles and some with scopes. You assume they're some sort of spear, though they aren't holding them correctly for any forseeable stabbing maneuver.
You're ushered into groups of five and led to separate rooms. You can finally see some logic in their actions; if you think a large group will be dangerous and you have a chance to separate them, you would do so. You hope you aren't being taken prisoner... it certainly feels like it! With their odd body language you can't tell what they're feeling beyond the most rudimentary fashion, as if you had taken to watching starfish and attempting to draw relationships between them.
You're grouped together with Ulla, who still is radiating the frosty aura from camp, Alca, who keeps looking at escape routes and is obviously planning kill-strategies aginst the Aliens, and Usun, a childish goblin you've had little to do with up to this point. After a while, a Alien steps in and drops off a set of items.
There is a twig with a strange, stone tip. It sits on a slip of some sort, almost leaflike in texture, and brief experimentation shows it can be used to make dark, clear marks.
There is a cube, comprised of smaller cubes, colored with odd leaflets of a colored substance and stuck on by unknown means.
There is a large brick of what seems to be wood, but cut into small leaves like the one paired with a twig. From the marks, this one is a compilation of drawings of some sort.
There is a small, black item, similar to the movingbox you saw on your scouting trip. It appears to be... inactive, with the clearstone uncolored. It's also far, far smaller.