It would be rude to ask a combatant about their magic, but Airta is not even slightly a combatant! Her magic lets her find paths to places, and also warns her of danger except when it's a giant teleporting snake with a mirror for a face! She has some trouble explaining that part.

… Ev can try to supply words of animals if necessary, especially if Airta indicates that it's reptilian, but she seems extremely confused by the idea of a teleporting snake with a mirror for a face, hardly surprisingly.

Danger sense sounds useful, though – does she know if it only happens if she would get hurt, or does it warn for some non-hurt things? (She goes through this question kinda slowly.)

It warns her for a lot of things. She isn't exactly sure how it chooses. She's less sure now than she was an hour ago, even.

It seems to warn mostly for things that would impede her in some way. She can get a sense of how dangerous they are, but it casts a wide net. It warned her when she was about to enter an unpleasantly lengthy conversation, once, although that was a bit of an outlier.

So it's definitely weird that it didn't do it for the snake with a mirror-face, then, since that probably got in her way just a little, yeah.

Ev looks back at the town, hair blowing around a bit in a breeze, and then asks if Airta wants to meet new people or not.

Airta is tentatively in favor of meeting people. Airta would also like to know about strange tattoo-less fire production magic.

It's… extremely slow to start off with, but as far as she knows it works for everyone, it's just whether they bother to try learning.

Ev could try teaching it to Airta, but it'd take a long time to learn – not that much effort on Ev's behalf, but a lot on Airta's.

Airta might be interested! There are some other things she feels she should figure out first, such as whether there's anywhere she can stay, and how she's going to earn her keep. And whether or not she'll be capable of using this place's magic. No one in her world seems to have it, so...

Nobody here seems to have whatever magic she has, so that's possibly interesting, but the magic they have here is kinda difficult to activate or start off with, so while she is somewhat surprised that they don't have it she isn't totally thrown.

And then Ev is filling in a bit of vocab and it occurs to her– "Shadows?" she asks. "The animal things that mark the ground. Do you have those?"

"Explain mark the ground?"

"… For magic? They dig," she mimes it, "and mark it for magic."

"We do not have those."

"… Huh," she says. "Might be interesting to test that with your danger thingy." Pause. Reword. "Your danger sense is useful, maybe."

"Shadows are... dangers?" Plurals are very irritating and irregular.

Ev nods. "Shadows are dangerous, town is not."

She looks back at the settlement, hesitating a bit, then asks, "Do you want to see?"

"Is seeing shadows danger?"

"No, seeing isn't dangerous," she says. "But – see the town now," she indicates the settlement, "and maybe see shadows tonight?" She indicates the wall.

She hesitates briefly, then nods.

So Ev starts walking in the direction of the town. It really won't take very long to get there.

And there's not much for Airta to do but follow her.

She practices sentence structures on the way.

Ev will help by correcting any few she might get wrong, but then they are at a building near the edge of the town.

She keeps walking. People around them seem somewhat curious about the newcomer but nobody actually stops them.

Airta tries not to be too visibly uncomfortable with the curious onlookers! She doesn't really succeed, but she hasn't been comfortable in this universe yet, so no one can really tell.

The town is relatively pretty. It doesn't look too undeveloped, stone houses and oil lamps, but it doesn't exactly have lots of modern technology. People seem to look after the area, planting flowers and such, and the town seems to have quite a few residents.

After a couple of minutes, Ev stops outside one of the larger of the buildings in the area and says, "My house."

Airta is impressed by the town! The architecture is very novel.

She nods at Ev. She hasn't been talking so much since there started being more people around.

And oh look it's Ev's father! Who seems somewhat surprised about the newcomer.

Ev will explain that she mysteriously appeared in a field and also what they've been doing since, unless Airta has any objections.

To the extent that she follows the conversation, Airta seems to think these are reasonable things to explain.