He frowns. "… Yes?"

"...Both?"

"… I thiiink so? I can't– really tell."

"That actually makes a weird sort of sense, if you're suddenly bilingual."

"Yeah," he says, then tilts his head a bit. "Um. It's also in Thuria – another language from my world. And a few others? I think?" Frown. "I really have no idea how because Seren is written up-down. And Thuria isn't."

"Can you speak those?"

He squints a bit and seems to be trying to think, but then settles on, "No?" Then he bites his lip a bit and says, "I don't think I can even speak Keiruna, though – that's my native language."

Then he frowns, yet again! "I'm not even sure what I'm speaking right now. Because, like, it sounds like it makes sense, and I understand what I'm saying, and I understand what you're saying, but I don't think I'm using the same phonemes as you, so– um?"

"This is a sentence in Huttese. I am fairly fluent."

"I speak very little Cheunh."

"Got both of those," he says. "And again, I can tell you're using different phonemes because it sounds different but I still get what you mean."

Then he says: "This is a sentence in Huttese. I am apparently fluent despite having never encountered it before."

That sentence was in fact in Huttese.

"What happens if you try to say something in Keiruna?"

Then he apparently says something unintelligible!

"… I'm pretty sure that wasn't the right sounds for those words."

"Can you say something in, hmm, Ortese? I don't speak any Ortese."

He says something unintelligible, but then says, "I don't think that was Ortese. Not sure what it was, but yeah, even though I have no idea what Ortese is, I'm inclined to say that wasn't Ortese."

"It seems like you can only speak languages your audience can understand. It's too bad we don't have a third person here."

"It felt like it was the wrong sounds for the Huttese thing too, but you seemed to understand me? And like, right now I– well, I wasn't paying attention to what sounds I was using, but now I am and I'm pretty sure I didn't know some of these phonemes, like who the hell has a glottal stop that actually means something in the language?"

"More data required, then."

"Yeah," he agrees. "So, while this is fun and all–" eugh, what the hell is he even speaking – "we should maybe try to find a way out of this forest with all its weird creatures? I think you said your room came with you – where was it to start off with, before it disappeared?"

"Over on the edge of the forest, near where the tree fell."

"Okay," he says, then looks around a bit. "Um, which way was that again?"

She points. "That way." Probably.

That way it is, then!

Again, he can run quite quickly.

Her natural pace is slower than his, but she can keep up over such a short distance.

Then they'll get out of the forest after a (relatively) short distance, a bit of a ways down from the log hut where Elleira found the book.

In front of them are some very tall buildings.

She is slightly winded.

"Those weren't there before. I don't recognize the style."

"… What about that hut? It doesn't really seem to mesh with the buildings."