" - I'm out of here once I get you to civilization. Yeah. Sounds good."

She smiles and heads in the direction she chose. "Me-ear-people word Quendi. Maybe Quendi city. City... hmm..." She thinks for a while about how to circumlocute for what she's looking for, finally shakes her head and says, "Maybe Quendi city."

"Will they eat me?"

"Eat?"

He pantomimes.

"Quendi not eat you!"

"Well good for them. I don't eat Quendi either."

Giggle.

"How'd you get out here alone?"

"Uh..." She pauses in walking to draw the snake monster. "That eat me."

"I don't know what that is."

"I don't know what that is," she sighs. "Valinor not have that."

"I don't know whether England has that but I think not."

She doesn't have the vocabulary to speculate further. She sighs and walks on.

None of these plants are familiar so he has no idea which ones will poison him. He hates talking but eventually he starts up again so he can teach enough vocabulary to convey this.

She appreciates the vocabulary. She says, "I eat a plant and find out, you maybe different but maybe not?"

"Downside of that plan is that if you're wrong you die, but if you don't mind that then go for it."

"If I die - um -" She taps the back of her neck, delicately moving a braid aside. "Thing in there. If person looking for me, tell where thing is - with this or not." "This" is a gesture at the rest of her body.

"- huh. If I die, no thing, nothing to tell anyone."

Sad nod.

"You can tell my family if you want but they'll be more interested in the language."

"They will also want to know about you!" she insists.

"I didn't say they wouldn't, just that they'd be more interested in the language. Lotsa people, not lotsa languages."

Sigh.

A while after that he makes himself some water by magic.