She listened as patiently as she ever did. The hand gestures made complete sense to Nadine, understanding that sometimes words couldn't wrap all the way around concepts like Cirque. "It'll be 'still' for a while, I'm afraid.
"But you're right, pancakes help. And it gets better." It was true, for most humans she'd seen show up from the outside to Cirque. Certainly her mother had adjusted.
A beep and a crunch of rocks and their ride was there. "Let's start with the pancakes and go from there, hmm?"