Stargate - Getting home is important

One of the two strangers, each younger than Carter, said something incoherent. The woman's words sounded more like 'al-thudiyu jamil' than any any English phrase.

Well that was just the cherry on top of the cake. Naked, trapped, and on a world that used a language she didn't know.

"I come in peace?" Carter said.

It was worth a shot. The man and woman looked at each other, just as confused by her words as she was by them. Carter felt her cheeks warm a little more as she took in the sight.

By the look of it, modesty was important on this world. It wasn't particularly cool, yet the man and woman both wore a number of layers, sheets of fabric in deep shades of velvet and scarlet and blue draped over their bodies, sleeves that covered arms up to the wrist, and everything from the neck-down hidden. Even their ankles were concealed. If not for their faces, she'd barely have been able to see the rich brown shade of their skin.

Daniel would have been the better choice to try and figure out which part of Earth they'd originally come from. Her guess would've been around the Middle East going by that shade, and by the scarf the woman wore over her hair, wrapped around but leaving the confused look on her face bare.

The knowledge that everyone else here was that covered up really wasn't helping her feel comfortable.

"Do you mind if I..." Carter said.

She reached for one of the woman's veils, not sure if she wanted to take it or gesture that she needed it. Either way, the woman shrunk back, saying something sharp and unclear. Carter gave up quickly, letting her arm return to covering her breasts.

Well that was a bust.

"Sorry," Carter said.

It wasn't doing anything to help her blush, especially as the two continued staring. Carter bit her lip. Okay, new plan.

"Car-ter," she said, enunciating clearly and gesturing to herself. The two strangers looked between each other, and back to the nude Major. "Carter," she said again.

It was a second before they got the memo.

"Leta," the woman said, enunciating just as clearly.

"Nasir," the boy said.

Carter sighed in relief. It was a start.

"Well, first thing Nasir, eyes are up here," Carter said.

He looked at her, confused, then returned to appreciatively ogling the cleavage made by her bare arm. It figured that on a world which such a conservative dress sense, her nudity would stand out. Well, if asking for clothes wasn't going to work...

"Stargate?" Carter tried next.

They continued to look at her in bafflement. Carter frowned, looking around for anything that would make communication easier. She winced at the noise coming from not so far away; there was an actual settlement just off the rocky area by the water, no doubt where these teenagers had come from. She just hoped no one else looked out in her direction.

In one of the small pools nearby, she spotted a silt deposit at the bottom. Quickly, before she could talk herself out of it, Carter hurried over, distracting herself from her embarrassment with new purpose.

Unsurprisingly, Nasir took the opportunity to look at her butt as opposed to her boobs. Carter swallowed her pride and let him, more focused on kneeling, bending forwards, and pulling out a few handfuls of silt from the bottom of the shallow water left by the tide. She dropped it onto a smooth patch of rock, making something she could draw in.

After quickly washing her hand, and wiping it on her thigh, she looked back. While Nasir's eyes seemed very fixed, Leta's seemed to wander all over her. Carter steadied her hand - focus on the task at hand, she told herself - and quickly sketched out a circle in the sand.

She added small lines for each chevron. It wasn't any kind of masterpiece, but she hoped it'd convey the idea.

"Have you seen one of these?" Carter said hopefully.

She sat back, letting her hand go back to trying to cover her chest, looking at the two natives. It was a little bit of time before they looked from her to the drawing.

Well, if nudity wasn't eye-catching, her pale skin must've been so strange in this place. Both of them seemed so captivated by it, even the woman. Carter tried not to think about that.

"Oh!" Leta said, the exclamation clear enough despite the language barrier. She rattled off a few words in her language, looking at Carter questioning.

"Er, sure," Carter said. "Have you seen it?"

Leta gestured excitedly, and began to move. Carter took a step to follow, and then realized they were heading for the setlement.

Well that figured... She adjusted her arms and, when Leta looked back curiously to see why she wasn't following, Carter took a deep breath and followed. Nasir trailed along behind, clearly enjoying the view from where he was.

Sam wasn't sure whether or not she preferred this to getting shot at. It was certainly a more novel experience on an alien world. Still, she told herself, she could worry about how utterly embarrassed she felt and how utterly exposed she'd been once she was through the Stargate and home.

Assuming that was where she was being taken, of course.

As they neared the settlement and more eyes turned to take in the sight of the naked, short-haired blonde, Carter really, really hoped it was. She needed this to be over soon.