Najzei can identify all the plants but not all of the stones; he'll produce commentary on the shapes and colors of the rocks if Briseadh wants though.

Eventually they come into view of a town with more to it than the farming village whence they came. It's bustling with pretty people - adults, not one single child anywhere - but it's still quite low-tech and low-density as towns go for all that it must be ten times the size of the village.

Najzei starts stopping random people to ask them questions in the local langauge.

Study time. How much can he understand the local language yet?

Probably not much. He has a vocabulary that mostly consists of plants and simple verbs. But he can stand there and look helpful or not that hard to feed.

Pretty soon he's going to have to figure out how to survive here as more than a pitiable guest.

After the fourth time Najzei talks to a random townie, they are led by the fourth random townie to a house! Random townie knocks on the door of the house, introduces Najzei to the household member, and fucks off. Najzei and the household member have a conversation. They are not talking slowly to be understood by Briseadh and are also mostly not discussing rocks and plants.