"I speak Common, I'm just shy of fluent in ancient Elvhen, and I know some very colorful phrases in Antivan and ancient Tevene. Never heard of Japanese."

So... the train was probably doing a lot of heavy lifting, here, in terms of the language barrier.

"It must not do anything too important outside of communication, if you broke yours off the train." It was a question, even if the tone she delivered it in wasn't.

Translation: how badly did you fuck up, total stranger?