There are people with scars. There are also people with congenital disabilities and old people. There's a medical office but presumably she can't read the sign.

The really important people don't do magic in public (but it might be hard to tell, since they do use enchanted items) but not all the people who do use it are slaves. Lots of apparently free people think nothing of casually using magic for their own convenience.

Old people is not relevant to this particular analysis, though she notes old power-users looking like old people she hasn't seen doing any magic. She can indeed not read the sign.

Yep, she's basically sure they have non-mage power-havers here, though not entirely sure if they also have any who are. Also if bracelets do indeed mean slavery she thinks it possibly looks more like that humans-enslave-each-other kind of slavery, based on how everyone's acting.

She may not be able to tell who's important. She partially reflexively watches for anything that looks like law enforcement.

And when it's time she follows the cop from the days before's directions to the lunch.

Law enforcement isn't obvious.

Lunch is just the two of them (this time). Everything's human-edible, but it's all mostly vegetables. Elvira's hostess takes the chance to ask her what she thinks of Anavel Sani so far.

You eat what you're given, not that she in fact has anything against vegetables. 

Field cover lessons covered small talk but this person knows she's a mage; presumably what she wants is a report or something. Which would be easier if she was surer what she might be supposed to report on, aside from probably the job thing.

She's walked around. She's gotten a beginning acquaintance with the market. She's trying to look at things so that she can better understand possible jobs. She's still not really sure how the local power-haver situation works.

(She's hoping bringing it up like that gives somewhat higher chances of an answer vs the possibility that they won't like her doing all this agent-thinking on her own.)

Her hostess gives a summary of the twelve kinds of mage. Mostly. She writes void magic off as useless and illegal and doesn't give an adequate description of how it works.

The concept of everyone being a power-haver is - somewhat staggering. (Sometimes in movies dryads can all magically grow plants or something, but she doesn't think she's seen anything of this level. Even in a movie). 

Well, that explanation of kinds-of-mage certainly matches and explains what she's been seeing.

Might she know more about this illegal magic, in case it's something she can do, so that she knows to avoid it? Are any other kinds of magic illegal?

It creates vacuum by destroying things. No other kind of magic is illegal per se, but if she telekinetically stole someone's property or used magic to cook someone to death, say, that could be illegal.

Nod.

Well that would be the opposite of surprising (of course, in her experience it tends to be the case that doing the same thing with magic would in fact be worse.)

She's not very sure what else she should be reporting. Attempts some more strategic information getting -

Her translator seems to be continuing to do well in helping her speak and understand, but she's been having challenges in some areas due not not being able to read at all, since she doesn't even know the alphabet. She's noticed people tend to act differently towards those wearing the particular bracelets, is that something she should know more about? (That kind of observation is within work parameters for field mages; hopefully they might also not mind it.)

She explains that they're probably the command bracelets slaves and prisoners have to wear. And maybe Elvira would like to learn the alphabet? It's the same for Ilan and Hari, sort of, except that some of the letters are pronounced differently. And written differently.

She knows what command magic is now, gets the probable idea behind command bracelets. It's a kind of horrifying idea. (That's possibly not entirely rational - it isn't as though being watched all the time for the possibility of doing forbidden things, and tortured for it, actually leaves much ability to do them, nor is especially pleasant.

The feeling still remains - she wasn't going to choose to do anything to get herself tortured to death if she could avoid it. But she could have, if she decided otherwise (and hadn't been killed in childhood for being that sort of person, but there it is). And at least they did have to put in all that effort, for the watching. (That seems like a weird thought to be having. Apparently she has it anyway.))

Practice at keeping various thoughts internal seems to apply just fine to weird ones.

Might she know about how slavery/prisonership here works?

(Internal) flinch at 'would like'. But they want to be pretending they freed her or whatever of the sort. The alphabet seems rather useful and possibly needed for what she's doing (also she would indeed like, but).

Yes, thank you, she would like.