"Do any of them speak your language?"

"Some. I think some humans've learned theirs, too, but nobody in Ninpai."

"In Yarisong?"

"Probably."

"They're kind of neat. Pretty. Not unfriendly."

"Strangers? I suppose they're not ugly but I wouldn't want to kiss one, you know?"

"Nah. But they seem like they make tolerable neighbors?"

"Eh. Better them than Qurangren."

'Haven't heard of those either. Well, not by that name."

"They're humans. A few decades ago they came through invading, set a lot of fires..."

"Mmmhmm." Does the Emperor help or is he not that kind of Emperor what a horribly inappropriate question that would be. "What stopped them?"

"The lords raised an army. I think all of ours came back but I don't remember for sure, it was before I was born. Grandfather limps."

Nod.

They're out of the passage now, the strangers' village receding into the distance. It's a hilly walk the rest of the way, preventing them from seeing Yarisong till they're nearly on top of it. It has walls, and sits at the edge of a river, and is about ten times the size of Ninpai, the farming village she's just left.

And does her pendant work to send a message home from Yarisong -

Nope!

She thanks her escort. She explores Yarisong.

Her escort wishes her well and heads home.

Yarisong has an inn, if she asks around. It has two restaurants, a large and confusingly laid out open-air market, a gambling establishment, a public square with a busker on a stringed instrument, some houses of two stories and basements.

Anyone who has heard of a place where magic works the way it works in every place on the Material Plane she's heard of, anyone who has heard of species other than humans she's heard of, anyone who'll give her a fair price for miscellaneous magic possessions...

No, and no, but they tend to confess they don't know much about foreign lands. Some of the people at the market aren't obviously trying to cheat her but they're skeptical of her claims that the things do what she says, just like Old Sao was.

That seems pretty unavoidable if arcane magic doesn't work here and the gods who pay attention to this place are different ones and they don't have any of the same magical critters. 

...after four days she goes back towards the forest where she came from. Before wandering the continent trying to find someone who's heard of where she started, or someone who can cast a Plane Shift, maybe it is worth checking whether the thing she wandered through is still around, or whether anyone has come through for her. 

She heads back out.

The forest is boring.

Yep, or she wouldn't be risking this. 

There is nothing interesting in the area where she first found the forest to be boring.

On her way back to Yarisong she encounters a very small stranger, knee-high, sitting alone on a tree stump eating a wild mushroom.

.....awwwww.

She hesitates a moment and then casts Comprehend Languages. "Hi."