It's magical, actually, in a lot of senses. Not just this...

[a little gesture to the self-writing quills, the stories plucked who-knows how; the library itself; dizzyingly immense. He has never seen such a large library before. The master had had one, of course, but only of informational books, dry factual accounts or lists.]

I was in the forests yesterday, looking at the different kinds of plants there. There are so many more than I had expected... and then the people and their customs...

[they make their homes in the trees here...!]

So much strange and new...!