That is fascinating.

She unlocks the door.

Iri is with him. He locks the door once they're inside.

"Hungry?" he asks. He mimes it for clarity. At this point a human who ate right before she arrived might be hungry. And she might not have.

Has she, in any of the episodes she's watched so far, seen people acquiring food and eating it and nothing negative happening as a result (for instance, at a market?)

Yeah, there was a crowd scene at a market where a lot of foods were named. In the background, some furry creatures ate some fruit. Someone humanoid but not human ate hard-to-see food of indeterminate origin in another crowd scene. Birds like Iri drank nectar straight from flowers in an episode that mentioned them.

That is as safe as she has a reasonable likelihood of being. And food is important for proper functioning.

"Yes, thank you."

Valanda gets a bag of nuts out from under the quilt and offers it to her.

"If you have any questions, I can try to answer them now," he says in Hari. He knows it's absurdly optimistic to expect her to understand but he's tired of Capital and forgot some of it while he was at work.

"Thank you." She eats nuts.

She has 'question' and the smaller words, and can conjecture from there.

"If I have questions, you can try to answer?" she checks in Capital (she looks at Iri).

Iri translates and otherwise stays silent.

"Yes," says Valanda.

"I have many questions. But I think I will not understand many - answers? - now. I will learn more, then say more questions," she says, in halting but clear Hari.

"What are important laws of the Empire? Any I will understand?" This she repeats in Hari and Capital, for practice and clarity respectively.

"Don't kill any people. Don't hit or eat people you don't own. Don't take any things or people that aren't yours. Don't damage someone else's things. Don't go anywhere you're not allowed to be, like into someone's house or apartment without their welcome. Don't lie about whether someone committed a crime. Don't make anyone leave a public place. Pay your taxes, I'll help you figure out how much, you don't owe any yet. There are some others but they only apply if you own slaves. Those apply everywhere in the Empire. We're in Ehima right now. Ehima also has other laws. Don't use void magic. Don't lie while selling things. Don't cut down any trees you don't own. There are laws about when and where you can fly and what kinds of buildings you can build, but I don't know them because I don't fly or build buildings. There are also some city laws. Maybe I should just get you written copies tomorrow, there are laws I don't think about much."

She clarifies or attempts to determine various words she doesn't have or is not sure of.

Was 'slave' in the not-video?

"Void magic is not illegal other places?" (From the not-video she had understood it was).

"Will it teach me reading also?" (the not-video). 

There were slaves in the video but she hasn't gotten to the episode about slavery yet. She may not have heard the word. If she doesn't guess a translation Iri won't be able to pluck the Capital word out of thin air.

"Reading Hari is easy. I'll teach you tomorrow. Void magic is illegal other places but it's not illegal under imperial law. There's imperial law. The Hari Empire enforces imperial law. Every state enforces other laws. Every state enforces a law against void magic. There could be a state where it was allowed, but there isn't one."

"Understood. Thank you.

What is void magic?

'Slaves'?"

"If you own a person, that person is your slave. Void magic is magic that makes there not be things. It makes empty space. Not empty like air, you can breathe air. Empty like you can't breathe. Empty like nothing. And then not empty because then things rush in to the empty space, but before that it's empty like it would be if you flew above the air."

Nod. "Thank you." She marks this important word. "Could I see it, if someone is a slave?"

"Vacuum?" She asks in Capital.

"Why is it illegal?"

And, it is information about their world again that they know that. "Are there people here who fly above the air?"

"Yes, vacuum," says Iri.

"Yes, you can see that Iri is my slave." Valanda points out the gold anklets. "And you can see that I'm not." He indicates his own bare wrists. He doesn't mention that he was definitely trying to get her in his thrall with his offer of enchanted bracelets earlier. He doesn't look sorry, either. "Void magic is illegal because it can't be undone. If we make everything void there will be no ground to stand on and no air to breathe and no food to eat. There are no people here who fly above the air. Can you do that?"

Clarification of a few words as needed. Nod.

She receives the new information about Iri, back-combines it with past information-without-that-context-at-the-time such as how Valanda spoke to xer, and xer wanting payment for answering Sheridan. Not enough general information to draw most conclusions yet, but more is helpful.

She makes conjectures about the connection, with respect to the bracelets, but does not currently comment on it. 

"Do all the bracelets have command magic like in the episode, or are some just for seeing?

Do many people own slaves?" (Given that it seems he does, while living in this apartment.)

"But death magic is not illegal?

I cannot do that. We can make some machines fly above the air, with technology. But we cannot put people in them."

("In space?" she asks in Capital, to get the word.)

Turns out there's not a single Hari word for outer space. Iri calls it the void beyond the world.

"You can make a bracelet and not enchant it, but if people see you wearing gold bracelets they'll think you're a slave. Wearing unenchanted bracelets would be a lie, I guess. It's not a very useful lie. It would mean people would think someone was protecting you. And if a slave commits a crime, the owner is the one who gets punished, but if you're just pretending, then people would figure that out when they couldn't find your owner. You would be safer if you were spoken for but you have no reason to trust me on that."

He shrugs and takes the bracelets he tried to trick her into wearing earlier and sticks them to the wall. They stay as if the wall were magnetic.

"Might be better to just take that off the table." And give her one less thing to try doing to him while he sleeps. Which reminds him. "If you don't want me watching you sleep, you can sleep while I'm at work this morning. Lock the door and I can't unlock it from the outside."

He frowns at some of her questions. They seem like very strange sorts of things to be unclear about.

"Yes, lots of people own slaves. Death magic is legal. I'm not sure why you'd want a law against it. The government pays death mages to go around helping sick people, it's good for preventing epidemics. Tell me how you fly above the air, isn't there nothing for your wings to beat against?"

(She generally continues attempting to clarify words as needed and switching between Capital and Hari as seems more optimal for being understood and also practicing.)

"Bracelets for slaves are always enchanted?" And, "will there be an episode on slavery?"

"That is very very generous, thank you.

Watching me?" (Does that have a figurative meaning she is not aware of?). "And, you do not sleep?"

"In the Empire where I am from, usually richer people own slaves, and the government owns slaves, and other people do not." 

She definitely does not have the Hari for this, but "it seems that death magic and void magic have the similarity that they can be very useful but also very dangerous. So I was clarifying on the one being illegal while the other is not."

"We do not fly with wings. We -" she thinks if there might be something to compare it to. "How do your flights work? Are they force magic? They cannot fly in space?"

"If they weren't enchanted they wouldn't do anything and then the slave could disobey. There will be an episode about slavery, yes. I sleep but I wouldn't expect you to trust me not to wake up and watch you. I'll tolerate you watching me sleep because there aren't any better options. When you've been here and able to work for a couple weeks and know the laws, then I'll help you find a place of your own."

He wonders why rich people and the government want that many slaves. Maybe labor is more useful where she's from.

"Void magic and death magic are different. It's not that void magic is dangerous every time you use it. No one expects someone to use so much void magic that suddenly there's no air to breathe. But if one void mage gets rid of one pound of stuff one day and then the next day another void mage does the same thing and  then the next day another void mage does the same thing..." Valanda spreads his hands. "Death magic isn't like that. New animals are born to replace the dead ones. Nothing replaces what's lost to void magic. Our flights are force magic unless you have wings. I guess a force mage could get to space. It'd be a long trip and they'd have to carry air and the vital air would be turned into poison as they breathed. And it wouldn't get them anything. They could go light a torch from the sun, I guess, I think that would make the torch transmute elements instead of compounds? But sun mages already do that. I guess maybe they could go pry a star out of the edge of the world and carry it home. I'm not sure what stars are. Maybe they're useful somehow."

"Thank you. You are very very kind." (And apparently tried to trick her into magical slavery, which suggests a likelihood of ulterior motives, but that is less useful to say.)

"I'm sorry, I do not understand. Does 'watch' mean more than 'look at'? Does to be looked at when you sleep hurt you?"

"Thank you, I understand."

"Torch? Light a torch from the sun? Why would it do that? Edge of the world?

I know what stars are where I am from; maybe they are the same here. How do you learn about the sun and the stars and what is outside the world?"

"I'm not sure what you're confused about. If we sleep in the same room, one of us could wake up and look at the other, yes. Or one of us could wake up and try to enchant the other. I don't know anything about the sun and stars, I'm not educated. There might be people here who know what stars are. I think a knowledge mage could tell but I've never asked. I'd like to know what you know about stars."

"Where I am from, if someone looks at someone else when they are asleep, nothing bad will happen. Here something bad will happen?

You can enchant differently if someone is asleep?

Could you explain about the torch? This is not a torch that is on fire and for giving light?"

Where she is from, the stars are giant balls of gas very very far away. They are made mostly of the first element and the second element. The sun is a star that the planet is closer to and goes around. You could not light a torch from it, because you could not go near it without dying - they burn and are very very hot. Also the world does not have an edge; it is a sphere.

"The sun might be that hot, I guess that would explain how it can heat half the world at a time. The sun is made of the first element and turns it into the second element. Uh, I know that the ground that this building is on is a sphere but I don't know how far the void goes or if there's anything after it. You seem to be confused about some things but I'm not sure what you're confused about. It's sometimes easier to hurt a sleeping person, depending on what kind of magic you have and what kind they have. I don't think it's ever harder. Sleeping people don't notice things and can't protect themselves very well. I guess I could kill you whether you're awake or not. Maybe you could do the same to me if you wanted, I don't know. You seem to know more about the sun than me so maybe I'm wrong about what would happen if you lit a torch from it, if you could do that which you say you can't."

Nod.

"Yes, you could.

You could blindfold me, or tie me down while you slept, if that would help you?" (she is not especially worried about her vulnerability to him. If he wants to hurt her, it is and has been clearly trivial for him to do so.)

"I don't know if your sun is the same as my sun." (She is still confused about the torch and the different kinds of magic, but it does not look like trying to clarify is achieving anything useful.)