i just went through the caves and it just lead me back to the latern guy, he didnt have anything new to say and i never found that little girl so now what do i do? go back to town?
At first when the girl is chasing the monkey? You need to go up to the upper right hand part of the map, there is kind of a circular area attached to a narrow path (I think, I'm at work so I can't actually look at the map) in that area you will find the next step.