(I think you're confusing Silveroak's response to someone else with the monocerous' response, temprobe. I don't think the creature ever spoke, the line about food was the faerie muse or smth.)
The muse was talking to Silas and asked him for food. The monocerous can only speak with Okeannetis.
Was this confusing? Yes, it was. 
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Aetherius will explain to the Monoceros he's trying to communicate with him and to please allow his magic to work. He'll spont a base 10 Intellego Animal to speak with the monocerous, eye range, for 15. His InAn spontaneous casting total is +24, with a target of 30, in an aura 5. If the spell succeeds, he will ask the familiar where Okeannetis would be.
Lares remembers he hasn't got his parma up yet and does that.
Ugh. Remembering this every day is going to be a problem.
Roll was 0, non botch, also magical beings cannot drop their magic resistance: spell fails.
While the other magi do their own part to prepare for a search-and-rescue, Plasmatoris will look into the covenant's soldier and grog situation; First, he's going to try and find a translator who can speak Latin. Then he's going to look for anyone who can traverse the local area with any level of knowledge or survivalist skills, and finally find a few combat-capable soldiers if he can.
You find the covenant has 43 men at arms, all of whom have some degree of familiarity with the area.
3 days later in teh late evening you hear someone you do not recognize yelling from the location of the Monoceerous pen, in Latin, "She's back! My bond maga is back!"
Focused on his studies, Argentius spends most of his day in study in his lab. When the sun begins to set and the heat cool, the artificer emerges from his sanctum to walk the grounds of the covenant. He stops to talk to the covenfolk, making small talk and asking for an updates or news from those who left.
On the second day, Argentius stops one of the statue-like creatures and, using his ring, tries to talk to the creature.
amongst the small talk with the Cathars he discovers from the memories of the youngest that the day everyone awoke rejuvenated was apparently Easter.
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Argentius files the comment about Easter away to share with others at a meal. As he continues his walk, he attempts to speak with one of the walking statues using his ring, inquiring first if it can understand him, and second if it knows who created it.
After the initial failures of trying to find Okeannetis, Silas has been following up various things regarding the site. Asking covenfolk, Jessica or rummaging throught text attempt to find any clues about a few questions.
- The effect of the baskets.
- How many automata the site have.
- Any information on his past familiar.
- If he had any holdings in Cairo or somewhere else for that matter.
On the third day he has been looking into the covenant wood supply. Trying to gauge how freely he can pursue his craft. The idea of expanding his laboratory with a proper studio has also crossed his mind, and a beautiful little wooden foyer would suit his needs perfectly.
Lares spends the first day flying above the mountains surrounding the covenant, looking for Okeannetis. He doesn’t find her, but does he see anything else? Maybe anything that could be one of the Vis sources with unknown locations?
“I’m pretty sure I would have seen her if she was here”, he reports to the others. “Something must have happened to her.”
When he’s not looking for Okeannetis, Lares studies Berber and pesters the mundanes about electing leaders, trying to get the first meeting of the governing council to happen.
When Lares hears about the newly-humanized monocerous, he instantly runs up to it/him/her.
“She is alright? Phew. I was pretty sure she was done for, disappearing like that! Where is she? We must send an expedition to bring her back safely.”
During the few days where Okeannetis is lost, Plasmatoris will continue to spend his mornings sleeping late due to bad scheduling, his afternoons and evenings working on some kind of organizational system for the covenfolk, and then stay up late worrying about random things that could go wrong before finally falling asleep. He'll also at some point do as full an inventory as he can for his lab and studio.
- He wants to find all the artistic work in the covenant and whom the artist for the was.
- He plans to search his lab notes and see if he crafted magical items for the covenant, or for himself.
- He wants a full list of the faeries living in his space, and to come up with a plan to interact with them in a way which minimizes their interference with his work.
When the cry comes out from the monoceros pen, Plasmatoris actually ended up falling asleep on one of the chairs in the dining room, with charcoal sketches and notes piled on the table by him.
Silas finds the lab notes both in the library and in his lab for construction of the baskets, which preserve vellum within the room they are in, casting twice daily at sunrise and sunset, along with the text to create a "woodworker's assistant"actually two effects- one is a level 30 tie the threads that bind to animate the wooden statue and the woodworker's assistant is a level 63 enchantment granting an automaton level 6 ability in woodworking- if you have that level or higher yourself, along with a level 35 (ReHe) enchantment for freedom of motion for the automatons. He also finds lab texts for a wand of demon's eternal oblivion (Level 15 w/ 16 penetration), a cross which casts the same level of demon's eternal oblivion with a room target every diameter, a wand with a curse of leprosy which can be cast to sight range (level 70 PeCo), the lab text for "the leper's veil" amulet. He finds no information about a past familiar, or about holdings elsewhere.
Lares does find the ancient pagan temple in the mountains which his son mentioned the covenant had berber covenfolk harvest vis from. The monocerous answers "she has emerged from the cave, she says she has been in a faerie regio."
The only artistic work Plasmatorius can find within the covenant is his own.His lab notes do not seem to favor enchantment aside from his talisman, but rather seem to focus on invoking the names of ancient deities or other figures to try and bestow blessings on artwork being produced. You find lab work invoking each of the muses, for example. He does not have a full list of the faeries occupying his space, but he has a list of common roles they take on, including Saint Luke, Pygmalion, Lady Ganderwin (along with a correspondence with a poet as to whom that is- apparently it refers to something called courtly love and is about a married woman who took many lovers and was constantly fooling her husband), and Hurple, which looks like something a very creative child might have come up with.
"Splendid." Lares will organize a few of the mundanes who accompanied them on the first trip to get Okeannetis.
Other than that, he will wait for the mundanes to select leaders, studyin Berber.
Argentius continues to settle into his routine of study by day, walks and chats in the cooler hours.
As the artificer talks to covenfolks, he often asks them about any magical or arcane devices they may be using or may be aware of in their part of the covenant or the nearby lands.
The artificer also gives one more solid attempt to speak (by the power of his ring) with any of the walking statues/automatons.
Plasmatoris, with his lack true comprehension of Faerie, will do his best to view each Faerie as an actor playing a role, but he will tend to mix them up at first - as much a factor of his scattered attention as anything.
So a majority of his time is spent working with the local Latin-speaking covenfolk to try and help get everything organized, with a mind towards getting the covenant self-sustaining. He will spend at least some time every day paying attention to his bonded familiar, trying to become more comfortable with its existence and presence as part of him.
When the cry does go out, Plasmatoris will finally stumble out into the courtyard of the covenant, his eyes blinking against the light, and his attention scattered, slowly solidifying. "Oh.. Lares," he says, getting a glimpse of the other magus. "Such noise. What is going on?"
"Our lost lamb has emerged," Lares explains while instructing the retrieval party.