Eventually their bus is back to pick them up.

They go; they don't know how to buy lunch there.

They tell their friends.

Does the bus guy have more customers?

Yes!

He informs his customers that people can buy the ability to speak the local language. There's an office up thereaway.

Oooooh. Some of them leave off staring at aliens to go check that out.

Office doesn't know what to do with Calador money but is set up to take tap, Tapa's got a shuttleport now. 

They don't have everything service here to change money, right?

They do not, frustratingly.

The next busful have some tap.

Then the next busful can have fluency in all languages. (The place is giving it out at a discount because these poor people live in Calado.)

They go exploring with better ability to understand their surroundings!

Magic University! Shuttleport with service every three minutes to Vanda Nossëo and other places they haven't heard of!

Some of them wander off to explore farther. Some of them check out the university.

Accepting applications for enrollment in the next session, beginning in five weeks. Public demos on Fridays. Here's how to report concerns about abuse of magic.

What constitutes abuse of magic? Is there tuition? When is Friday?

Friday turns out to be in two days. Doing experimental magic in places that are not designated for that is not allowed; doing any kind of mind-altering magic except with a licensed subtle artist and appropriate consent all around is not allowed; doing these other kinds of potentially dangerous thing are not allowed. There is tuition. Sometimes it is waived.

What's a subtle artist? When is tuition waived?

Subtle artists have a different kind of magic that has lots of mental effects. If they are licensed as therapists they can use it consensually to fix phobias and stuff. The country this person is originally from used them for interrogation too but that's not allowed here. Tuition gets waived if you got screened and approved for a job you need magic for or are part of various pilot programs or know somebody who knows somebody.

What kinds of jobs and programs?

Uh, making magic items is the big one, there are never enough people who want to spend all day making magic items. Or doing original magic research, or getting good at healing to be stationed on an Elendil planet as a paramedic or at combat magic to safely break up magic fights...

So this is a pretty multicaste thing?

...hmmm?

Oh, they're from a planet with a caste system.

Oh, there's a country on this person's world of origin that did that. His country didn't. It sounds annoying.