[Is that a rhetorical question? Oran, having such little contact with this entity, is going to take it as not, because when else is he going to get a response, even if it feels like he's being spun around and around again?]

I... I define reality by my experiences. I was brought here by fate, just like I was saved from certain death by fate!

I trust you, but I don't know that I... ah... understand everything you try to tell us. Tell me.

[He drops into a lower bow, head touching the tiles gently, tail curling around him to make him seem as small as possible.]

I only want to help my friend, but... but I can tell him to watch and listen for signs by the sea, if that is your will. Only... how do I help with understanding the arcane arts? He strives to learn more, and I want that, too.

((And possibly figuring that a box of magic textbooks is a good misrepresentation of this wish, haha))