Portal. [He guesses that's what you'd call it, he'd never seen anything like it.] Probably more magic stuff. I tried getting a look at how it functioned, but I couldn't get my hands on the specs before the city went to hell.

[Slick sighs, trying to relax a bit of irritable tension from his jaw.] Until we find another one, we're stuck here. You'll find some more English-speakers about, plus Chinese and Korean. We've got a bunch of Earthers here. [No clue why. But that brings up another thing.] If you don't trust the comms or translator [like him], I've been collecting emergency operational vocabulary from everybody's language that I can get my hands on. We can get you sorted on that.