"No."

"Well, the woods start just over that way, so if you want to take a walk I can point out what is and isn't safe."

"Sure. Is that where people here get most food?"

In that case they can start walking. "It's a major source of food, you'll notice the parts closer to civilization are pretty picked over, but there are farms for finickier crops that want more human attention. You can see right around here," she gestures at the nearby fields, "some of the older attempts at vegetables need help with pollination, and squidbushes only rarely manage to grow without humans babying them a bit. Besides those kinds of things and forest plants, there are fish that are edible if cooked right, and people sometimes steal eggs - the birds can lay extras, but only up to a point, so be very conservative about that - and, hm, besides that there's occasionally magic to spare for conjured food but conjured anything is always tremendously expensive."

"Older attempts?"

"Uh, so, you know how the world was destroyed about five centuries ago, scattering the remnants of humanity to a variety of new worlds that didn't necessarily have anything in them already?"

"No."

"...Oh. Um. Do you not know that because you have more than that much history or because you have less than that much history?"

"More. I think that didn't happen in my sky."

"...Well, see, that's weird because it means humanity was scattered before that. And I think if our ancestors had had the option to move in with you, they would have taken it."

"Well, that long ago we did not have the smart tool but we did have lots of real stars."

"I think our historians will want to try to get to the bottom of that with you, although I don't know how much success to expect."

"The smart tool in my head knows a lot of things. More words will help."

"What general topic do you need more words about?"

"About, uh, how things happen without magic doing them."

"Things happen without magic because of physics - things fall when dropped, things move when pushed - or, hm, because of chemistry and chemical reactions, I suppose. Chemistry is the one where substances become other substances."

"Yes, words about those and about numbers and about - how to have thoughts about numbers."

"Well, you can add numbers - one plus one is two, two plus three is five - you can subtract them - three minus two is one - or multiply them - two times one is two - or divide them - four divided by two is two." The numbers through five are too transparently obvious to bother confirming that Tarinda knows them. "Past five the numbers go six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve... two times ten is twenty, three times ten is thirty, ten times ten is a hundred, ten times a hundred is a thousand. Then there's algebra, which involves doing things to numbers without knowing which numbers they are, and statistics, which involves using numbers to predict real things."

"Do you have - algebra about words - because of this then definitely that -"

"Yes! That's a syllogism. Those are taught in logic class along with induction, which is 'if this probably that', and the scientific method, which is how to tell if your ideas are true."

Unfortunately books won't have signs in them. "Can I watch a class of that for words?"

"I expect so! You'll have to talk to the school about scheduling that."

"Okay. I might need to watch a lot."

"The first seven years worth of classes are free for everyone."

"I probably won't need seven years."