"I don't recall the exact words and I'm not sure I can cast from the scrolls of the kind you have here, at least not without Read Magic which I don't have prepared today."

"We can give you a cheap one to try if you're not sure. If it doesn't work we can loan a wand. What does [Read Magic] do?"

"It lets me comprehend magical writing, like the scrolls in use on Golarion, only some of which I can use even with the spell. I'd usually have a similar problem with a wand created by an arcane caster."

"People without any particular class, Skill or Spell can learn to use scrolls from here, although it takes some training for non-[Mages], but it's easy enough most adventurers and high-leveled combatants learn it. It doesn't involve comprehending the magical inscription. Wands are even easier, and well-made ones are impossible to miscast; a particularly untalented first-timer might take at most half an hour to figure out how to use one."

"Well, I'm willing to try it if you'd rather go through me than ask the Antinium."

"It sounds like our scrolls are different enough from yours that it will be easier to get the wand—they're reusable, so it's only a matter of requisitioning one."

He writes a note and passes it through a slot in the door.

"I don't know if we'll be following up with the Antinium, but if we do we want to be prepared with all the information at our disposal. Under what circumstances did this come up?"

"I was speaking with Klbkch and Xrn by communication stone during my time in Khelt."

"How did that come about?"

"I was kidnapped and Khelt was on the way back to Liscor."

"I meant why did this involve being in communication with Klbkch and Xrn, and why the location and existence of a dragon was relevant."

"It's relevant to a historical research project. I don't believe my contract requires me to tell you why I would be talking to Klbkch and Xrn about anything other than specifically and directly the dragon."

"Yes. A historical research project about... dragons?"

"No, about things that happened long enough ago that a dragon would be a potentially useful primary source."

"To restate, are you saying that the suspected location of a dragon was told to you during discussion of a historical research project, as a potential primary source for historical research?"

"Yes."

"Are the Antinium currently actively seeking out Teriarch, or were doing so or planning to do so, or was it more of a passing mention""

"As of our conversation about it none of us had a particularly good way to narrow down the location and I haven't been kept up to date on the project, even if it's ongoing, since it doesn't seem likely any of my abilities would usefully feature."

"The Spell you mentioned, [Sending], it wouldn't have helped?"

"It would get a message to the dragon, at ghastly expense; the dragon would be under no obligation to reply and it would not reveal the dragon's location to the sender."

"Did you mention the option after which they decided against it?"

"No, I didn't think of it at the time. I can't cast Sending myself and am not sure I would be able to successfully trade for it across planes."

"Can you explain the limits of [Sending]? I don't believe [Message] can do what you're describing."

"Sending is fourth circle, for clerics. It takes ten minutes to cast. It transmits a short spoken message, makes the caster's identity known to the target if they'd be recognizable but not if they're a total stranger, and allows but in no way compels an immediate reply of the same duration. It is not affected by distance, except for the aforementioned failure rate between planes."

"How does the targeting work? Do you not need to have met the person, or have line of sight, a focus or a scry?"

"You need to know who you're targeting, but I expect the dragon's name and the fact that they are a dragon would suffice, you don't need to have met and certainly don't need to be able to see them."