Indeed he can.

She sets her lizard down when they get to the lake. Anything stand out here?

Tyler flies back to go pick Thario up.

There are: lots of trees! It's almost like a solid wall bordering the lake, actually.

The lake is rather huge. Also presumably quite deep. And seems to have a few splashes a distance out – she can tell there are various lifeforms moving about in it, of various types.

The sky is still quite dark. It's not too difficult to see around, because weirdly enough the darkness doesn't actually seem to be reducing the clarity of her vision much out here, at least not in the local area.

Other than that… not really? The ground is green. It has grass. There are a couple of mushrooms. Small pebbles nearer the lake. A couple of small boulders, no mysterious swords, no obviously predatory animals.

Seems like she could relax, here.

She doesn't trust it.

Well, there's that slight noise, if she's paying very careful attention.

… But it's probably nothing.

No, that's probably something. Where's it coming from?

… Probably in the forest? Or maybe that's just a weird echo.

The forest really does look like a wall, though. Kind of literally. Not super literally, she can still see gaps, but the trunks are rather close together.

Hopefully that'll prevent anything big from getting through.

It should! Unless the really big thing towered over the trees, of course, but it probably doesn't. She'd probably be able to feel the vibrations as it moved or something. (She can't.)

And then Tyler is back with Thario!

"… Anything interesting happen?" he asks after seeing her.

Thario continues to translate. He's quite good at this.

"There was a noise. From the forest, I think."

Thario listens. "… Do you by any chance know what 'Mirroculus' means?"

"You mean miraculous?"

"Nope. 'Mirroculus'. I will take that as a no."

"Never heard of it either," says Tyler.

"Okay, well, something is saying it from the forest."

Which is weird, because she can't hear it. It sounded like it was just the one sound to her, not a continuous thing.

"...I can't hear anything."

"Me neither," says Tyler.

"Right, okay," he says. "Anyway – water?"

So Tyler gets to work fetching some water and then trying to mess with it to desalinate it.

"Say something if it gets louder or closer or anything."

"I can't really tell how loud it is," he says, shrugging helplessly. "It's just sort of… there."

"It might be related to your languages thing."

"Yeah," he says. "I'm not sure it really makes sense, though."