[quote=YandereNoodle]
That helps a lot, yeah. Im rewriting the thing now - Would it make sense that the forest lets us speak any language and have it be understood by everyone? Because we obviously don't have any language barrier established and we come from different places in the world - possibly even completely different worlds.
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[I] excellent[/i] point! I had the same thought when we started but didn't want to make things more complicated than they had to be. I would've assigned that ability to the lanterns. Assume you're still very much close enough to the lantern -- or a lantern -- to communicate freely.