"Yes, we do. We dispelled your truth potion and we are using magic to determine that you are harmless."

It - doesn't make any SENSE - how could you use magic to determine that??? 

Masozi doesn't say anything about this out loud, but he is not exactly very good at hiding his emotions. 

"We can use magic to see how powerful someone is, and you aren't very, and to see whether there's magic defending them, and to see whether they're Evil or not." The kid's just neutral, exactly as you would expect from a random kid. "We can use magic for all kinds of things, because Cheliax is a powerful kingdom, and the powers of the gods stretch far beyond it; but they desire that all people live good lives, so you are safe here."

Masozi knows that he isn't very powerful, but it still kind of hurts, to hear that repeated. 

- He isn't really sure what she means by 'gods'? But it - seems kind of scary and dangerous, to ask about that. It's the sort of thing that people get upset about, sometimes, and Masozi's recent experiences are that people getting upset usually leads to them wanting to kill him. 

".....I don't know what you mean by 'evil'?" 

(He should probably ALSO not have said this, but - it seems important to understand -)

"Have we found anyone who knows the language?" she asks her bodyguards. 

          "No. Which doesn't necessarily mean it's anything weird, there are lots of small tribes that only speak their own thing."

"And do we have a trace on where he's from?"

        "No. Which is -"

Slightly more indicative that something's weird. She nods. 

"Okay," she says to the kid. "Evil is hurting people. Good is helping them. It gets more complicated than that, lots more complicated than that, but no one expects you to know all the Law of a place you've never been. We know that you aren't here to hurt me." 

Why would he want to hurt her. He has no idea who she is - which she must have noticed by now if she's not stupid - and also she hasn't hurt him? Even a little bit? And she definitely hasn't hurt anyone else who he knows or been responsible for their deaths, because he would have NOTICED and also all of the hurt and dying is already more-than-sufficiently explained...

Nevermind. Focus. 

"- Why do you know I'm not here to hurt you?" he hears himself say, even though he already knows this isn't helpful for his continued survival. He's confused. She - checked that he wasn't 'evil', but it seems like from her perspective it would be perfectly reasonable to think that he never hurt anyone else before but might still want to hurt her? 

"Because in addition to checking if you are aligned with Our enemies We are also reading your mind."

Oh. 

That's very clever and careful of them? (He thinks this with significant respect.) 

Focus. Orient. 

"- I haven't ever heard of Cheliax?" he says, hopefully. "What is Cheliax - like...?" 

"It's safe, and there's enough food, and children go to school, and a laborer can pay with a day's labor for bread for two." 

Why is she saying exactly the things that Masozi thinks are most relevant–    oh right she just SAID, she's reading his mind. 

FOCUS. 

"......Where I come from, there's magic and - if you believe in it then magic works? And - then there are magical monsters, called mals. I - I don't know if it's like that here but - they might've followed me through anyway - however I got here I don't know how I got here–"

Possibly - probably? - the mysterious rich powerful lady already knows all of this, but it feels important to say it anyway. Just in case. And - so that she knows that he knows it too?

She looks surprised, actually. "And magic - doesn't work, if you don't believe in it?"

"- Not really? I - it can work at all - if the monster's big and strong enough?" 

But he brought his baby sister to a mundane family because he thought that would keep her safe and so he has to believe that will work that isn't how reality works at all. 

"Everyone here believes in magic so if that's the case we might not have noticed," she says slowly. "But also I am pretty sure it's not. You ...might be from another world. There are other worlds. Can you tell me more about how monsters might have...followed you through? Would they show up here, if they did that?"

"They eat people for their mana? I - if there are people here who do magic then they'd have lots of mana and the mals would go after them." 

(Masozi is thinking that he is, for once, not the tastiest and most mana-rich target around here? Apparently? Since the rich lady in her beautiful rich-person clothes just said that he's not even powerful enough to be dangerous, according to her standards.) 

((....In a quiet corner of his mind, he's also thinking that he could probably try to nudge these people's minds in a direction - if he had any idea what was happening, which he doesn't, and so he can't possibly know what direction-of-nudging would help - and also their minds feel really hard to poke and he doesn't exactly have a lot of mana right now....))

"Do you know if it's that way in other countries too. Do you know if there are any places that don't have that problem."

"No? But I - there are lots of places and I don't know very many things? ...I think it might be safer in New York." 

"Is New York another country - is it a place you can only get by - magic travel, or boats, you could never walk?"

"I - don't think you could walk there? I think it's on the other side of an ocean? ....I don't know if boats can go that far either. I think there're storms and stuff." 

Probably. Masozi looked at a map in a library book, like, once. Mostly his thoughts right now are that New York is very far away and also in America which is the place where everyone is unimaginably rich.

"All right. I am going to pray for divine guidance. Please don't interrupt me. If you think of things while I am praying, you can tell him." and she touches the nearest security, one of Leareth's Thoughtsensers, with Tongues. "Iomedae will know whether mals can follow you to Golarion and whether we ought to let them do that or not."

....He's so confused. What does praying for divine guidance even MEAN. Also who's Iomedae - actually he thinks this was explained earlier? but he failed to process it at all because he was panicking? - but STILL he's SO CONFUSED. 

One of Leareth's security staff steps forward. 

"My name is Ramel." 

This child is visibly terrified. 

Ramel kneels on the floor. (While carefully maintaining his personal shields.) 

"Can you understand me?" The mysterious foreign kid should be able to understand him, he knows how Tongues works, but - apparently this could be other worlds business, again, so it's worth checking. "- Nod if you do. You don't need to say anything."

Nod. 

"Do you have any questions?"