One of those strange entries Rain mentioned appeared in my journal. And as with the one she saw, it disappeared promptly. Strange, but not at the top of my priorities at the moment.
I have to say just how very thankful I am to Orich. At about the end of my second week of imprisonment, he managed to smuggle in my...um...kind-of-a-telescope-but-not-really-weird-magnifying-glass-contraption. Combining the microscopic viewing capabilities (Microscope!) of the device with my vision enhancement spell, I've been spending the past four weeks trying to figure out just how it is the world is put together. So far I've managed to surmise that those little circles I discovered previously do in fact form the basis for life. But they also seem to form the building blocks of much more. The walls of my cell, the iron bars, the water I drank, the bread I ate, even Orich's armor; all of these were, at their basest forms, comprised of these (as-of-yet) unnamed circles, though moving along at vastly different speeds, frequencies and movement patterns. Hmmm... I have a theory. I think I'll go test it.
Addendum: Theory proven. By focusing levitation magic on individual groups of circle thingies, I was able to completely separate fragments of an object from one another and move them individually of one another. I've come up with quite a few more theories revolving around this finding, but most of them are going to take some time to test. But I think I've finally managed to succeed where so many others have failed. Theoretically at least.