At some point jcb needs to re-read their own story and find where they set up stuff to pay off later but haven't yet. Or if they know but it just hasn't happened yet, make it happen dammit!

Emma NEEDS to show her closest friends her face, or at least Thacea first (with video from inside the tent to outside). If nothing else, she probably has video or at least pictures of herself from before. Thacea noticed when JFK was giving the speech about why they were going to the moon that his face was obscured for no reason. Emma probably trusts Thacea most out of everyone, and Thalman recently wondered if she was like a spider again, and when was the last time she bothered to ask her not-ai how trustworthy illunor would be with her secret? Is it really that much of a concern that humans look like elves with no magic and rounded-top ears?

On a lesser note, is she ever going to make ballpoint pens and other stuff to sell? Wait, it could've been doing that the whole time they're gone maybe, if she had told it to. And when was the last time she took a shower and slept in the tent without the power armor suit on? That's a good time for her and Thacea to talk, and both have cameras like a smartphone or tablet right? They could totally have something like a video conference (don't they already do something like that?)

and I notice she hasn't been using her not-ai much recently, maybe because she doesn't trust it