[Kara comes back down the hall, passing a well-worn towel to Caroline and keeping the other, patting at her face and hair. She slides her cape off her shoulders and moves to the sink to wring it out, puzzling why Caroline's questioning anything until it hits her. Oh Rao.]

Right! Oh, shoot, you just... got here. Usually when we arrive, it's in a room we call the reset room, and it's not during a storm that spawns weird dust monsters. Usually there's some people there who've been here a lot longer than the rest of us who explain everything that's going on.

So, um... welcome to Reims, which is in France. I'm not sure about you, but this isn't the same Earth I was on before I got here, but it is Earth. This Earth is kind of... plagued by monsters called Sound Eaters. And if it's not raining and you're not in a soundproofed building, if you make a sound, the Sound Eaters could come and... kill you, basically. They're powerful and deadly and it's very important that if you're not in a place like this? [she gestures around her house.] That you be quiet.