[She even cracks the teeniest of smirks at that almost-joke. But it's incredibly fleeting.]

I never got the chance to catch one. They made it back to the water too quickly. [Sigh.] Well, there's no sign of them for now.

[She looks down at the data pad, then back up at him. Then she holds it up a bit, facing him, so he can see a little bit better.] It's a data pad. Information storage, mostly text and image format. Is there nothing like this in your world?