He appears in a small room with one window, one door, and one person who shouts angrily at him in a language that isn't related to Sesati.

He snarls right back before he's even untangled himself from the ungraceful heap he landed in. Coiled up in a tense crouch, he keeps himself low and small, poised to jump in any direction. He is not going down without a fight. 

His feet stick to the quilt on the floor, which sticks to the floor. The stranger says something threatening.

Growling low in his throat, he tears frantically at the quilt and tries to rip it to shreds. 

The quilt is indestructible and now his hands are stuck to it. If his teeth at any point come together they can stick together too and then his host will be infinitesimally more relaxed.

He makes demands in that same language that isn't related to Sesati.

This situation has not gotten any less alarming, but on the other hand, it doesn't seem like there's anything to fight, so he subsides. 

He attempts to look confused in a way that conveys 'I don't speak your language.' You moron. 

New language. This one's not tonal and uses longer words. Still not related to Sesati.

Well, that's promising. 

No, really, it is. He's pretty sure he's not in Sesat anymore, which is what he was trying to achieve anyway, and the angry stranger has figured out he doesn't speak the local language. He'd quite like to not be stuck to the floor, but really things could be worse. 

The light from the window is at a different angle and the stranger is suddenly placing a talking metal rectangle with moving pictures on it on the floor.

...he's lost time. That's not great. Hopefully, he didn't miss anything important, but there's nothing he can do about it now. 

Talking rectangle? 

It speaks the first language his host tried. The pictures show a talking cat gesturing at things with its tail and saying things.

He thought the scary person had figured out he doesn't speak this language. Maybe it's trying to teach him this language? He's probably too stupid to learn it but he tries to pay attention anyway. 

This is awful and nerve-wracking and still better than where he was yesterday. 

Then he can maybe learn some vocabulary none of which will be very immediately helpful here. Rock! Tree! Similarly concrete nouns!

Sure. Learning words for rocks and trees and things. From a talking cat in a picture on a metal thing. 

...this would be easier if he could repeat the words out loud. Maybe. He thinks. But it doesn't matter if he's right, because he can't do that. The strange terrifying person hasn't unstuck his teeth yet, or anything else. 

His host sits next to a pile of color-changing coin necklaces and watches him silently.

The show teaches forest-related vocabulary, then abruptly the scene changes to an orchard. The light from the window doesn't seem to jump when the scene changes, it seems to just be the pictures. The orchard features another talking cat who farms and talks about how farming works. After that it changes again, to a different farm with livestock. It doesn't seem to stop. It wasn't designed to be engaging to humans. It might not have been designed to be engaging at all.

Being bored isn't new, and this situation definitely has enough new and alarming elements to keep him alert. After a while, though, he starts sneaking glances at his host, increasing in frequency until he's watching the other person almost as much as he's watching the talking cat show. 

Glaaaaaaaaare.

Gosh yes these moving pictures sure are fascinating. Look at all this attention he's paying. 

If he doesn't do anything else to get his host's attention his host will sit there for a long while and then go away and leave him.

That's...good? Probably? Although it would be better if he wasn't still stuck to the floor with his teeth stuck together.

He watches the talking cats and tries to make the words stay in his mind by sheer force of will. 

Shortly after his host leaves, a new episode starts.

"Welcome to a new episode of Hari is the Language of the Empire. I'm Mahan and I will be teaching you Hari. Today we'll talk about magic."

The show's host has an assistant create an illusion of twelve symbols on a bare patch of ground between them. He points to each one in turn and names it, and sometimes has some creature come on screen and demonstrate it. A snake levitates. Something furry that isn't a cat transmutes elements. There are twelve kinds of magic and not all of them are shown but all of them are named.

Okay, now he's interested. 

Do any of the types of magic look like they could be responsible for the thing sticking him to the floor? Which is, now he's thinking about it, obviously magic. 

One is shown levitating things and one is shown making things unbreakable. Some aren't demonstrated.