[While the urge to lie is strong, it wouldn't be useful in this case, and he'd surely be found out soon enough.]

What can be gleaned from books and observation. Before arriving here, I had no magic of my own, or what I had was so little it's not really worth mentioning. I've cast spells, summoning rituals, things like that that don't necessarily require a catalyst of real ability.

Here, I've been granted what I ought to have had in the first place. The same powers of my elder self.