 What can the captives do?
Their captors had no idea of how a woven design should behave. They entered the house, which had no roof, continued to move beneath a sky that glowed with light which did not come from a sun or moon. Eudalia had been a female foreman in a garment-cutting shop before being captured and brought through. It arrived before the meal, materializing against one of the seven walls of the roofless chamber. Somehow it brings things closer...." This was so with all of their foods, with their cigarettes, with everything in their prison—or their cage. Their captors were utterly without a human conception of smell, living, apparently, in a world without odor at all.
 create things they think about
 control their ability to have children  escape back to their homes when they desire  fight the alien commands  create things they think about