The uniformed person asks something and Felicianus answers. <Are you okay with staying here then? There is a temple that take people too.>

He can speak to Felicianus, he can’t speak to anyone else. The thought of being away from him, even though he’s not been around him that long, sends a small note of panic through him. 

<Uh...whatever is easiest for you, I suppose?>

Maybe Felicianus feels that tensed panic, because Tadashi gets calming pats on his back. <It won't be any trouble. I just wanted to give you options.> He gives Tadashi a reassuring smile.

<Thank you, I really didn't like the idea of not being able to communicate.>

<We would teach you the language either way.>

<Can you do that telepathically?>

<Not at an accelerated rate, but we can exchange words out loud and I can send you the meaning.>

Tadashi whistles. <Magic. Wow. It is fascinating.>

<It is, isn't it? Let me find a place for you to sleep and show you around?>

<Thank you, I would like to gain some sort of bearing.>

<Lets go do that then.>

They say goodbye to the guard who nods and leaves (Felicianus guides Tadashi through the words).

Then there is a short tour through the building, Felicianus explains it is a Mage Guild (place where people with magical powers offer their services) and that it belongs to his family. Currently he is the only mage around because his mother and brothers are elsewhere cutting a deal. But Felicianus will gladly introduce him to the small staff and show him his room. They have plenty of space because the building used to be an inn.

<Mage Guild kinda sounds like a not-for-profit back home. People helping others because they can. It's very noble.>

<I am sad to inform you that it's actually a paid service. Though, we do things for free too. Like helping people from faraway places getting settled.>

<So more like a doctor's surgery, gotcha.>

He tries to hide a creeping blush. <Well, it doesn't get more faraway than me, that's true.>

That's adorable.

<In that case I hope I am being good at acclimating you. Do you have any  questions? I am not sure where to start.>

<Oh, I have so many. Let me organise them into subject first, before I unleash them on you.>

Tadashi is a scientist, of a sort, and such employs a scientific curiousity into everything.

<Of course.>

Tadashi thinks for a few moments, Felicianus can probably see the way he stacks everything in neat mental piles.

<Okay, first off, you mentioned 'shapes', like people can take different forms. Does that mean that essentially every person is just operating a kind of meat suit?>

<I have never heard being put in that way. But it's not a wrong description.>

<So your mind, your soul, if you will, is interchangeable?>

<Not really? Someone's different shapes will be controlled by the same mind.>

<So what happens to the mind when it isn't inhabiting a shape?>

<Ah. Changing shapes is a gradual process that it takes a minute and your mind sticks through it while it happens.>

<Then piloting more than one shape isn't possible?>

<Not without special magic. Like a duplicating power.>