[Elsa offers a smile at his answer, mostly to hide her own anxiety but also a bit amused by his way to accept the help. Still, she reminds herself that while chances are he is a new arrival, other possibilities exist to explain his presence there and how out of place he seems to be. So the first thing she does is take out her own journal and show it to him, if he's like her then he should have one.]

Then, first of all and just to make sure, do you happen to have a book similar to this? Possibly with a message from one Scurvey Dog that told you to come to this fountain?