"Oh, that's not as bad. I'm not sure what I should be asking but I suppose that's itself something to ask."

"I don't like the sunshine. I have to be careful about overeating so I hope you don't have a culture where I have to eat a lot to be polite. I can see in total darkness, though not color and not for great distances. Some of my possessions are magic and/or irreplaceable and I don't want other people handling them. If my friends come looking for me they'll be any subset of three human men, darker than you, beards, similarly silly-looking outfit situations. Or I guess they could subcontract, but that would still probably get you human men, darker than you, silly-looking outfit situations."

"I don't want to get in the way of them retrieving you but at some point I would like to do something about people unexpectedly appearing on my property."

"Can't help you there, Forbiddance is a sixth circle divine-only spell. For whatever it's worth I don't think it's especially likely to keep happening, it was probably random where it sent me - unless this place was really interesting a couple thousand years ago? - and my rescuers would be looking for me, not you."

"I see." She lowers her voice a little. "Do you think they'll find you too soon to worry about whether you'd be able to teach your magic to people here?"

"Might depend on how much trouble they have with the rest of the dungeon - I can imagine sequences of events that would hold them up for months, and that's plenty of time for a really talented person to get a cantrip or two down."

"In that case, there's something you need to know before you let anyone sweet-talk you into trying to teach their darling child a sleep spell. There used to be another species with their own magic, besides humans and mermaids and dragons and phoenixes. They're universally evil. The spell that denied them their own magic made them reincarnate into human bodies, but they're not actually human, and they don't have human magic."

"People like to say my species is universally evil. We're actually just very poorly incentivized."

"Well, I hope your species gets to try reincarnating without pain-powered magic as individuals among human societies, it - helps, from what I hear from the societies that let them live, in that sometimes they turn out cooperative or law-abiding or useful, but they don't feel bad for the poor and they think hurting people is fun no matter how you raise them."

"There are species that are so overwhelmingly evil that I wouldn't stop to quiz one if I saw them someplace I didn't expect to doing something shifty before I killed them. Not mortal species, critters from the evil afterlife planes mostly, certain kinds of dragon - not that I can take a grown dragon - undead. I'm just - first pass skeptical of the description about a species I have no previous experience with because it gets to be very easy to repeat without checking. They'd want the sleep spell for passing as human?"

"Yes. And knowing it was something they could learn would have effects on - everything we build on being able to tell, in places like this. If it's widely known to be teachable then probably some bleeding heart who doesn't like killing even evil children will do their best to make sure it's well-known to be well-known, get everyone to give up on screening. It wouldn't destroy society, just - getting rid of them tends to go along with abolishing slavery, and it's something that societies that have more scientists and philosophers tend to do. Someone's coming by who's met some, if you're still here tomorrow maybe you can talk to him."

"Sounds interesting. I can hold on to the sleep spell but - I can imagine sequences of events that take the question of whether and how there should be ongoing contact between our planets quite out of my hands."

"Yeah. It might not be worth going out of your way to worry about it."

"Good to know anyway. Anything else like that we should discuss before all communication is one way?"

"Thoughts on whether you should sleep here, rent a room, or actually don't sleep at night?"

"I sleep, though my schedule wanders all over the place when I'm above ground. Here's fine if I'm welcome, if you don't want me in the house I can magic up some shelter but that might attract attention if you get passersby."

"It's really up to you how many more people you want to explain yourself to. What kind of magic shelter can you make?"

"Sphere thingy where the bottom half goes through the ground, it's cozy inside and keeps the rain off."

"You can probably find a place for that, depending on how big a sphere it is. We're in a city."

"Twenty foot radius. Sadly I do not actually have Rope Trick prepared, my party member usually handled that."

"I probably shouldn't let myself get distracted asking about that. What kinds of things do you think I should write for you?"

"Great question, uh, please and thank you, where is the insert-thing-here that I might need to find, yes, no, maybe, it's complicated, numbers one to ten?"

"Don't figure you can count on having your fingers for that last part?"

And here is the library. There are several bookcases and some tables and a big window and writing supplies. Tema heads for the writing supplies first.

"Well, if you add mathematical operators you can get to larger numbers."

"Sensible." She writes all the suggested things so far including arithmetic operations. She's being efficient but not writing too small, since the text needs to be easy to point to.