Beka is not sure what she was expecting as a result of walking into a snake monster but an Elf city would have been very low on a list of possibilities if someone had jumbled a lot of random words together into place-phrases and had her rank them. "Elf city" would probably have been under "spider void" and above "grape juice ocean". And yet here she is.
Then after a while he will start venturing Tapap sentences! He is possibly confused about syntax because musical lyrics are special.
"I want only you forever? I want only Melkor dead forever? I want only world forever?"
"Maybe I shouldn't have started with Melkor dead? Maybe Melkor dead with lovey pop songs?"
"I don't think lovey pop songs are gonna kill your evil torture castle dude. Though I dunno, you do have magic music."
"Do have magic music! Dunno if lovey pop songs magic music. Melkor shouldn't have started a war? Melkor started a war, Elves end a war?"
"We can hope!" She is sending her impressions of the vague hilarity of his off-center grammar as they go.
After an hour his grammar is much less hilarious and he is sort of conversant with osanwë helping.
Caste dialects!!! Blues sound all careful and greens sound so proper and yellows sound so persnickety. Greys are loud casual and oranges borrow everyone's vocabulary but use their own soft sounds. Purples subdivide a bit and sound insular, clueless.
"The caste thing. It is silly but it does interesting language things. I don't know how I feel about silly things that are linguistically interesting."
She cackles.
She doesn't know any foreign languages but she knows some foreign songs and, not word for word but line for line, what they mean.
Oh good.
She doesn't know if they wanna spend her pocket everything's charge on listening to ones she doesn't have memorized in the original.
"Do you have articles about your world's technology and manufacturing?"