He nodded, chuckling. "To proceed as far as I have has taken decades, though this place and the people in charge of it have stolen much of my power."
He smiled a little. "Some should not. there is a need for those who wage war on the front lines, those who build things, and those who walk the contemplative path. Not all are born to be scholars."
He nodded. "There are some here, as well as many Earth books, and a very small number from other places, I think." He rubbed one ear as he thought, then shook his head. "We don't have to forage in truth, but I do not trust it. I would try to lay in food, but there is no place to do so where they could not remove it."
"More like a town, but yes. We don't know, exactly, what happened here. Either way, those two buildings are the only two remotely fully intact here." He nodded to her. "It may well be some place on Earth or a related world, though from some of what i have learned, it might not be the Earth you know."