Gabe tosses Nico's hair in the most annoying way possible. "No it wasn't. Now go along, kiddo."

He ducks away from the touseling and runs off.

He is not followed.

Annoying old guy! Well, not that annoying, he did have a language thing.

This might make it harder to learn the language for real, though.

He keeps scouting around in case a better place to sleep or something easy to steal shows up.

There are a few foods that people leave unattended or sometimes forget. Unless he leaves the park's area he won't find anywhere he can sleep now. But some bushes and benches can conceivable be better shelters.

The nicely dressed bear from earlier pushes a weirdly dressed bear (who is wearing something made out of colorful strips of cloth) into the stage. After an awkward pause the weirdly dressed bear starts to dance... which apparently causes honey to float and levitate around them. Everyone is watching and not paying attention to things.

He'll stick to abandoned things and not pickpocket, for now.

...That's clearly some kind of magic, a song and dance performance. He's pretty sure they don't have points by now. Good for them. He should try to find a book or ask someone about it or something.

There is a kebab thing that was left mostly uneaten, maybe because of the vegetables. A glass of something that smell strong, but not alcoholic. A magazine. A rectangular black box...

He pilfers all these things except the black box. He investigates that a little more closely before deciding.

It feel besides a bench, it's covered in some kind of soft black fabric.

Huh. What's in the box? If it even opens.

It slides open easily enough, there is no latch, but something that attracts the lid close. Inside: there is a tiny flute, something that looks like kelp, five tiny bottles in different colors, a glass bead and a pamphlet.

Seems somewhat valuable. More likely to get in some sort of trouble if he takes it than some random snack or magazine.

He explores around a little bit more. If nobody claims it in twenty minutes or so he'll come back and take that, too.

It's still there after twenty minutes.

He grabs the thing and hides it and reads the pamphlet... If he can even read?

He can read... the letters change when his eyes hover over them with enough attention to actually read, but the ones at his visual periphery are alien.

It's an emergency kit for people that fell in the ocean, with instructions. Apparently the bottles are potions for health, "mana" (this is almost translated as points), gill-growing, an anti-poison potion that also lets you drink sea water, and one that makes you smell and taste like flowers (and therefore not shark food). The flute gives a translation effect that comes from "the wise deepblue whale" instead of "conventional patrons", but does not elaborate what that means.

The glass bead and kelp are not mentioned at all.

The kelp might be food?

He reads the instructions thoroughly. It's not a very good survival kit if some random kid can't figure out how to use it, is it now?

It does not look particularly edible.

There are instructions on how to play the flute. The potions were meant to be drunk, obviously enough, but there are all kind of instructions about interactions and tidbits about not worrying if one sweats pink after drinking the floral potion but find help if their sweat turns blue. Nico probably shouldn't worry about drinking the anti-poison while lactating. The health potion can't replace a normal meal, but helps a bit with starvation.

He needs to find a library.

Is there anything recognizable as a library around?

Yeah, a small two-store brick building next to a grocery shop. The lights are on.

He goes into the library, sneakily, and tries to figure out its organization scheme and looks for books that are introduction-to-magic-y.

Apparently there is organization by age (child, young-adult and adult) and then topic. There isn't anything that is meant to teach magic, but there are some books that talk about magical things. Is he looking for anything specific?

...What different kinds of magic there are, then? He's pretty sure he can pick apart young-adult books.

Well, the table of content in this book, seems primarily divided between "spellcasting", "fairfolk", "magical beings", "fairylands and other magical places" and "unclassified". It's a list of various magical phenomena.

So they can do some magic themselves, but also get it from "fairfolk" and "magical beings".

He continues skimming.

The book appears to be aimed at a human audience given how it refers to non-humans as the others. There are apparently multiple ways to do spell-casting, but most rely on magical objects one way or the other, staves and wands feature a lot in this section. Potion-making and enchanting objects are a sub-category of spellcasting.

Fairfolk seems to be the term for a kind of magic person, the book mentions the decision of using the term to also encompass "spirits", though there is little elaboration on why and how that would be "controversial". There is no obvious distinction between Fairfolk and some kinds of other kinds of magical beings mentioned besides the fact that Fairfolk are always people. Talking animals are magical beings. Fairylands appear to be magical places where Fairfolk live, but they are not the only kind of place with magic.

The unclassified list features some things that are known to exist but poorly understood. It also mentions at least a dozen things that hail from different worlds.