Less intermingled with businesses.

It's kind of hard to say. Might not be very different than other places she's seen so far.

Not where she is interested in being at the moment, in that case. 

Walking more. If she notices places getting nicer, or alternatively less nice, or the corresponding things about people in the streets, she'll head father in the relevant direction.

If she goes all the way through this neighborhood she'll end up right at the fence around someone's orchard at the edge of town. There's no convenient gate right here, though. If she follows the fence a while keeping the city to one side of her she'll find a pathway out and a handful of shops and more housing.

Some of the housing here charges by the hour or the day instead of by the month. Might be hotels of some kind?

She is not planning on trespassing. 

Useful to know. What kind of shops are here?

At this entrance to town she could buy seeds or an almanac or an enchanted scarecrow. If she could pay for any of them.

Enchanted scarecrow?

It doesn't just stand still for the birds to perch on! It moves! It's a little bit dangerous to birds! Comes in three models, so you can replace them when the birds learn to get past them.

Another option also for sale is for just killing specific species that get into a certain area.

Is the former force magic? (She is guessing the latter is death magic). 

It's a combination of magics, actually. There's knowledge magic involved, but that might not be obvious to Sheridan. And illusion.

(Is that information being made available somehow?)

It is indeed not obvious to her; she does not currently know that knowledge magic can be put on an object. She looks if there is any other information on the scarecrow.

(She might make some inferences based on what it does.)

Someone is manning that shop at the moment! She might ask when he's done selling a belul a book.

(How so?)

Has she seen other people asking people manning stores things without buying anything?

(Well, it moves, it changes colors, it reacts to its environment...)

It has ever happened.

So, force magic and illusion magic. (She does not make the knowledge magic inference yet.)

Did it happen in a way that suggests she can safely try it?

Nobody got eaten?

It's plausible that everyone else who tried it was at least seriously considering buying. Most of them did buy at least one other thing while they were out.

She's fairly confident she won't be eaten; she's more worried about someone getting angry she's not buying, wanting her to pay for the earlier questions, and calling lawkeepers on her when she cannot.

Alright, she will avoid that for the moment then. And, she hasn't found what she was looking for, but she's been out for a while; she heads back.

Valanda's out when she gets back but Iri can let her in.

Might Iri have the time and willingness to answer some questions?

"Sure."

She thinks she understands most of the types of magic, but what does inheritance magic actually entail?

"Inside people and animals and plants there's a long string. It's too small to see. It's not all the same, different parts are different somehow. If a part of the string is wrong, you can get sick. For me, part of the string says what color my feathers are. If it was wrong I might be white instead. Inheritance magic is for seeing the string and changing it."

...in living people?

"Yes."

...what is their current state of the art on doing things with that?