"What the fuck?  What the fuck!  Is that- how did-"  She gets stuck, bites her lip and breathes deeply for a moment or so.

"Um.  Hi.  I'm Khalida."

“Are you unfamiliar with Tongues? My apologies for startling you, if so. I’m Brenlya.”

"No, it's- I mean I can't cast it yet but- did you just get that-"  No wait, she's an idiot, the other cleric was probably saving it in case they needed a Cure on the road.  Which is an entirely respectable reason even if it sucked for her personally.  She flushes a bit and puts a hand over her mouth.

“…Yes, I just got that. Are you alright? Do you have any idea what happened, with the summoning?”

Is she from some sort of… weird cult of Lathander? There was a weird group of them saying he was some ancient Netherese deity, right, do they teach that only sun gods are Good or something? That would be incredibly inconvenient.

Tiny nod to 'are you alright'.  

But then she asks a question about magic and Khalida can unstick herself- "No, I've got no clue- I mean, I didn't have Detect Magic up but I thought I felt something, and it might have been what Conjuration feels like inside-out?  But this is way longer than I've ever heard of a summons lasting, and also most summons get, like, angels or demons or whatever, not random mortals, and also also I've never heard of people disappearing off the street to get summoned to other Material planes?  Except I was in a hallway actually, not a street, but same difference.  And-" She glances at the wizard.  "Was that Draconic, that first thing you tried?"

“Filen, was that language Draconic?”

”Yeah, why?”

”Think our guest might be from another plane or something.”

”Ah.”

"Okay yeah I thought it was- I'm speaking in Draconic at this time-"  she's never actually been under a Tongues before, she's not sure if you can deliberately make yourself not understood, "-did that work?  It's like- it's not the same language but it's not not the same?  Which is really weird, right, that's why all the old books are in Draconic is they got everywhere, so how far away do I have to be that it's kind of the same sort of language but we can't understand each other?"  She pauses for breath.

She can totally switch to a different language!

”I don’t have any idea what’s with that, I don’t even know Draconic myself. We’ll reach a road that’s good enough for horses tomorrow, and then it’s two days to Silverymoon - sorry, can you ride?”

"Oh yeah- I mean, not like combat riding or anything fancy, but I can stay on a horse and keep it going the right direction.  Also if you haven't got a spare I've got a first-circle spell for one, but it's gonna trade off with Comprehend Languages."

The wizard looks up at this!

"If you're willing to trade for it, I can prepare some tomorrow, it'll save us money on the horses. What schools do you prefer?"

"Oooh, probably conjuration, especially here, but it's so hard to pick, I really like illusions and evocation is usually more useful- or abjuration, I suppose, I've been doing Endures for weeks- oh, I'm second circle, so if you wanna do more than the one I won't have anything to swap for higher than that, I used to have notes on Fireball but I don't have them with me-" 

And then her Wis finally catches up to her Int and she pauses.  "Actually, if there's a spell we've both got we probably oughta check we can read each other's diagrams first, no sense negotiating the whole swap and then not being able to do it after all."

“Oh, of course. Do you have Mage Armor, or Identify?”

"Nope-"  she moves closer and pulls out her spellbook, "Alarm?  Feather Fall?  -oh, I'm an idiot, there's fewer cantrips, we're more likely to share them-  those are spells we've got at home, though, and it sounds like you recognized Mount?  So that's promising- hm, unless Tongues just picks the closest equivalent, I guess, I wouldn't think it does but I haven't tried-"

“I’ve heard of those. I have Detect Poison, Detect Magic, Read Magic - Divination’s my best school. I’ve also got Acid Splash, Open/Close, Daze, Dancing Lights, Flare, Resistance, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation, and Arcane Mark, of course.”

"Out of those I've got Read and Detect Magic, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand, Resistance, and Dancing Lights, and then besides them Mending, Light, Message, Scrivener's Chant, Ray of Frost... let's compare Resistance?  I can get it as divine too, so that might help if we can't figure it out just from the spellcharts, didn't pick it today but I can swap at dawn.  Or Detect Magic, I get divine Detect Magic every time but I used today's earlier."

Resistance is pretty much identical, accounting to notational differences.

”I’ve never heard of Scrivener’s Chant, what school is it?”

"Transmutation- it animates a pen to do copying for you, can't handle spellcharts but it's good for like treatises and pamphlets and stuff."  Compare compare ponder.  "So you're in the Azlantian tradition too?  Did Aroden visit here, d'you know?"

“Oh, like Amanuensis. I’ve never heard the name; I think wizardry mostly derives from ancient Netherese arcanists?”

"Oh, huh, what's Netherese?  Uh, where I'm from Aroden was the last survivor of lost Azlant, and preserved their magical knowledge and then ascended?  And went off to a bunch of other worlds in between there, so I dunno if he might've been here too."

“Uh, Netherese is a name for the people of Netheril, a really powerful magical civilization that had floating cities and powerful items and whatnot, until one of their archmages, Karsis, tried to steal Mystral’s godly power and this wrecked all magic, and all their floating cities crashed into the earth, and Mystral had to sacrifice herself to prevent even more stuff from going wrong. And then Mystral came back as Mystra, somehow? Or Mystra took over her domains? Something like that.”

"Huh, weird, that sounds almost like Earthfall- except it wasn't a god, it was fish people- who somebody tried to steal the power of, I mean, it was a god who sacrificed Herself and turned into a rat.  Except it'd be really weird for Aroden to go around to a bunch of worlds just in time for them all to have an Earthfall- maybe it's not weird, mysterious ways and whatever.  Is Mystra your name for the god of magic?  Ours is Nethys-"  she taps her mask symbol on its cord, "and that sounds kinda the same to me but I dunno if it's just Tongues doing that, does it sound the same to you?"

“Nethys, Mystra… maybe if you’re missing some sounds, they sound reasonably different to me - wait, you mean Netherese and Nethys, don’t you.  Yeah, those sound similar. No idea why.”

"Oh yeah, sorry.  It might be coincidence?  Seems like the sort of thing that isn't but I've got no idea otherwise.  And there's only so many ways to get words with a human mouth, I guess.  Um.  Or elf."