Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

She will eventually stop crying inconsolably if he waits long enough, and then meekly accept the food and never look him in the eyes and never say much more than two words.

Sigh. He lets her free, completely unharmed and letting her keep the fruit.

He feels around. Are there any concentrations of paper that might be books?

Nope.

Tenno releases Jiwe from his treecage, re-imprisons him if he attacks, and tries the same process in another few towns. More of the same?

Not all towns have people with magic, but the ones who do pretty much all attack him on sight if they see him flying.

This 'unique and interesting world' is proving a lot more frustrating than he would like.

This is a dangerous place, and lawless too. He leaves food in his path, though they'll likely ignore it, flies into the wilderness a little ways, and starts on a patch of forest that will become his home. Over the next few days, does anyone approach his patch of forest?

Yep! A woman casually holding a stick and dragging it on the ground as she walks, backed by two thuggish-looking men.

He's not about to come out to them. Trees are his power. He will shout in his language to clarify that he doesn't understand them.

They stop, and the woman with the stick asks a question in her own language.

The stick feels... weird.

He prepared trees in recognizably humanlike forms, for intimidation. A trio of these thump-thumps their way toward them. He tries to say 'no understand'. He's reasonably sure about the 'no' at least.

She doesn't look intimidated, but she pauses when she hears the words. She taps the stick against her leg a bit, then asks something.

The moving trees stop well away from her. They are partly a deception, with any luck they will forget the rest of the forest is his too.

He recognized 'you'. And says 'no understand you'. Is this a chance to actually learn significant parts of this place's language? "I am Tenno."

"I am Jua."

Tenno himself walks out in front of his humanlike trees. The worst she could do is send him home again, and it's not like this place has been particularly interesting so far. He's wearing armor now, of course, specially grown treeflesh.

He waves and says, "Trava, Jua." Hopefully it's clear enough that's a greeting.

She eyes him suspiciously and greets him back in her language. Her bodyguards do not do anything, and her stick feels a little bit weirder.

That stick is a weapon. He's positive. He makes preparations - a wall of wood between them, just underground, that can spring up in an instant.

But, visibly, he shrugs and motions at the sun. Can he get some actual language from her? Please? "What is name that?"

She smirks. "Jua."

"Hm." Well, who is he to say what they can name themselves. He nods approvingly and motions at a tree. "Tenno." Close enough.

Can he get her to name more things?

Maybe. How will he try going about that?

By motioning at them and asking what that thing's name is. Obvious stuff like 'ground' and 'tree' at first. He makes a fruit, points at a rock. He starts drawing pictures with mobile twigs if her patience lasts that long.

It won't. After two words she'll get bored and ask a question, pointing at him and then gesturing around them, sounding annoyed.

He shakes his head in as confused a way he can manage and says in his own language, "I still don't understand."

She groans and tries to mimic something, pointing at him again, then at her stick (which starts to glow very slightly when she does), then at his constructs, and then at the forest. She's saying something while she does it.

Time for visual aids. He makes twig drawing of a person not holding anything going into the forest and then going out the other side holding a piece of fruit. Drawing of people holding swords going into his forest and getting whacked by a drawing of his tree golems until they drop the swords or run away.