The cube turned green and Jack smiled. Placing it on the table in front of Jaella he nodded. "Go ahead Gwen. Say something to her."

"Hello, Jaella," Gwen said with a smile. She turned so that one leg was underneath her as she faced the alien girl. Jaella was smaller than her, which was a novelty. She was used to big, burly aliens, so having such a delicate girl next to her was a novel event.

"Hello miss," Jaella responded. She stared from the box to Gwen with a look of wonder on her face. "You can understand me?"

"Yes," Gwen said. "I can. Do you know how you got here?" Jaella tilted her head to one side before turning to look at Rhys.

"He brought me," she said, stating the obvious. Rhys chuckled. She watched as Ianto brought mugs around to the three humans. "What is that, sir?"

"It's coffee," Ianto said. "It's a drink that is made from ground beans. Would you like to try some?" She nodded so he turned back to pour her a cup. He brought it out and put it on the table before adding in a small pitcher of cream and a bowl of sugar. "We use these to flavor it occasionally. You can try it as is, or with either of these." She followed his hands as he gestured to each of the items as he put them down in front of her before looking up at his face. "Be careful, because it can be hot."

"Thank you sir," she said. She carefully picked up the mug in front of her and sniffed it cautiously. Looking up, she saw that Jack and Gwen were drinking from their mugs while Rhys was too fascinated with watching her to drink his own. Jaella put a finger tip in to test the temperature and licked it to get a taste of the flavor. "Ah!" She exclaimed. She took a sip and closed her eyes, humming with contentment. Ianto raised an eyebrow at her reaction.

"Coffee, the universal drink," Jack said with a grin. "I can name a hundred planets that do something similar. Perhaps Jaella has something like that in her own world." He took a sip and sighed appreciatively.

"We do, though it is a delicacy sir," Jaella said. "I was never allowed as a young one to have much more than a sip from my crèche mother's cup." She took another small sip and savored the taste. "Ah."

"How did you get to Earth, Jaella?" Gwen asked.

"Oh, I am sorry, miss. I did not realize that was what you meant before," Jaella apologized and ducked her head down in embarrassment. "I came on a ship."

"Go on," Jack watched her intently. So she didn't come through the rift, and they missed a ship in their own doorstep. He wasn't too happy about that, but he wasn't going to take it out on the poor girl. "When was this?"

"One – no – one and a half days ago?" She looked questioningly at them as she spoke. From the tenseness of the man in front of her she could see that there was some cause for concern. "I am sorry, sir. Did I do something wrong?"

"No, sweetheart, you didn't do anything wrong," Gwen said, reaching out to touch the other girl's hand. She glared at Jack for scaring the girl. Rhys recognized that protective streak in his wife and was glad to see that her ire wasn't directed at him.

"Ianto, can you scan back and see what we might have missed?" Jack asked. Ianto went over to the nearest console and logged in. He began checking their records to see if there was some indication of a passing ship that they might have missed. Jack hunkered down on his heels so that he was level with Jaella. "Was it a ship of your own people?"

"No sir," she shook her head. "I was serving on the Yl'hani cruiser as part of the crew. We stopped off to pick up some water for the hydro converters but had an accident. I am not sure what happened, but the other members of the shuttle crew were killed. I do not know how I survived. Our instruments were ruined and I have been unable to reach them."

"Ianto?" Jack asked. Ianto was now accessing several instruments which scanned the atmosphere above them. Once he started that scan, he connected up to the UNIT satellites above the atmosphere and looked for any traces of a ship in orbit.

"Nothing so far, sir," he said. He tied into another set of tracking devices used by the military and searched further. "Wait, did you say the ship uses hydro converters?" He turned to look at Jaella who nodded. "Then it might have left a vapor trail. That wouldn't be something that anyone would be looking for, which is why we also may have missed them." He tapped on the keyboard and reconfigured his search parameters. "This may take a bit as the instruments re-analyze the data."