Swamped

"Don't suppose you know enough words to tell me what happened here?" you ask with a shrug.

"Enough words!" it shouts back at you. "Enough words!"

It starts walking away, then glances back at you. Maybe it's hungry?

"I could get you some food," you offer. Not that you know what it eats, but someone in camp probably does.

"Food! Food!" It runs in a circle excitedly. Seems you made the right offer. "Food!"

"Okay, okay. I'll get you some food once you tell me what you saw."

It seems to struggle a bit with this concept. You try talking to it for a bit, but after a while it's mostly repeating things you said. Maybe they don't hold onto words for that long.

Well. You think you can do something with that.

"Did you see two humans disappear? Yes if you did, no if you didn't."

"Yes! Yes!" It seems to dance around excitedly. "Disappear! Two humans!"

You can't tell to what extent it actually understands you and to what extent it's just repeating. A few quick test questions suggest it does understand "yes" and "no", or at least that there's a difference. Beyond that, you aren't sure.

Well, your conversations with Ringer have mostly been yes or no questions anyways. So you have some experience thinking like this, at least. Now you just need to figure out what to ask about to get some kind of clarification.