"The Circle." He repeats. He's not ignorant of what that is, just what happened to mages in this world was one of the greatest things of interest to him when he first arrived. "You're a mage, then? I had questions about the Circle as well." He hesitates, because...where would you even start, with such a thing?

As he thinks, he holds his hand down to Garahel--his right hand, no need to shove hands with strange tattoos and shards at the poor dog.

"Do you feel like the Circle was effective at teaching mages control? At keeping them from using their magic to hurt other people?" That seems like an important one to start out with--if not particularly easy, maybe.