"Ah! A fellow countrywoman." Faiza's smile widened as she shook Martha's hand firmly as well. "You must be from the recent pod pop. I'm afraid I wasn't able to get down there. With the head of the department on the planet, I'm sort of in charge down here."

The faux-panicked look was just for show. She was handling it fine.

"We've looked everywhere we can think of. Admittedly, there may be a few places we've missed. Though we couldn't guarantee that what we found would be in English anyway." Faiza shook her head. "Anyway. We're muddling through. Haven't had a major medical emergency in...a couple of weeks, at least."