After a while it's time to fly.

The aircraft doesn't seem to have any engines.

This is not her area and is not going to register particularly. (Even without comparing to the previous method of flying.)

She goes where she's directed.

(Not-actually-permissions have continued to expand. She is definitely not succeeding at not trembling outwardly).

They fly north. Her minders keep an eye on her collar.

She is still and compliant and hands visible (and terrified).

And, partway into the flight:

"It can be taken off now, ma'am." (It hasn't in fact disintegrated, so from a physical perspective will have to be broken if they don't have a way to unlock it. But that's all, now.)

After some trial and error that will probably sound really weird to Elvira, the collar unlocks itself. One but not all of her minders takes it and jumps out of the aircraft.

And they keep going north.

The point at which it can be taken off is past the point where the collar is in fact not doing much containing of her magic. It isn't, technically, that much of a difference to have it off. But she has had permission for magic before, even a lot of it, and she has worn a collar every second of her life in her memory - learned from earliest consciousness what it meant and to sort people by it, worn an invisible collar for field work and had it beaten into her to make it visible if this or that - if someone knows and might think -. 

It feels (horribly) enormous. It feels like literally any second someone from the Authority of Mages will appear directly in front of her and. (That doesn't make any sense. Even if they're here and find out where she is they won't translocate in front of her as first step. It still feels that way.)

It feels like she'll suddenly do something - some bit of magic somehow without thinking. And that'll put her across the line into volitional transgressions, and she's worked for the Authority of Mages, she knows what that means, and she doesn't want to find out what it feels like to be set on fire, to be torn to pieces literally and not metaphorically.

No one seems to want anything of her so needing to be functional isn't exerting force enough, and she sits there and shakes and is terrified and still and does nothing, nothing, nothing.

They land. If she can't follow where she's led they'll just levitate her.

Conveniently there has been a complete absence of physically torturing her until she is unable to walk. She can follow.

This city has more cats and fewer human-shaped people than the one they were in before.

They take her to a very imposing building.

She may have different standards for what buildings have what psychological effects and why.

They are probably going to want her to do something, here. Which means she does, indeed, need to be functioning. She can't not be terrified, but she can push it places other than 'literally taking the entirely of her head'. 

Walk, walk.

They take her aside in a comfortable room with yet another person (this one is a big cat) and explain some things. They're going to want her to drop all her spells and enchanted artifacts before her audience in a heavily warded area. That will make the translator a problem.

"...So can you translate without it?" the cat finishes.

She might have more at least internal reaction to the cat if it weren't for all of what is taking priority. TV and such has non-human-shaped aliens/being sometimes. Apparently so does this actual planet.

...did they think she was using magic before? And - didn't care about that, somehow? (She's pretty sure that even if you have non-mage power-users you're probably going to not want them to do that when they're arrested.)

She was letting herself keep some senses active before - there's a level that's allowed by the collar on default, isn't forbidden, still magic of course but close to her other senses in use and permission. She drops that completely now, in case it counts, here.

Looking down. "No, sir."

"We can handle translation into our languages but not into yours. If we have to give you a list of topics we're interested in beforehand how well do you think you can remember them?"

"I have an above average memory but not a perfect one, sir. Might I know how many topics there would be? If there are many, might I write them down?" 

"Oh, you can read? We'll have someone bring some writing implements we know couldn't be enchanted."

...She thinks she remembers from history that teaching everyone to read wasn't always happening. Apparently it still might not be here, or happened recently or something.

"Yes, sir."

Someone brings paper and a slightly chewed-on brushpen with a handle that isn't really designed for a hand.

The list of things they want to know about is long and concerning. They want to know about everything there is to know about the other world's laws, customs, magic, technology, population, and when they're likely to notice Elvira and her handler missing and come after them. Among other things.

She takes notes, carefully and as neatly as she can given the writing utensil.

...Probably no one from Earth here yet, then. Or there is but they haven't been very forthcoming, or the locals want to double-check what they've been told. 'Not very forthcoming' would be the worst one, there - much easier for her to end up saying something they wouldn't want her to.

Her instructions on interrogation were not intended for other planets. 

If she refuses to tell them anything at all, they will presumably start torturing her right away (that one happens to human agents too, so them not knowing she's a mage isn't going to help there). Usually if she was captured she'd know the CIA would be either coming to get her or changing anything she might reveal in a few days. She doesn't have that, now. She highly doubts she's going to be able to hold out under torture indefinitely; even knowing the CIA will do worse when they get her back if she breaks probably isn't going to be enough after a while. And at that point she'll be in much worse condition for making any kind of judgements on what to say. 

She finishes her notes. She tells them so, waits to see if they'll be reading them now or later.

They'd like her to explain all this out loud, actually, in person in an entirely different part of the building, to yet another person she hasn't met yet, with none of her spells or enchanted objects. None of them can even read English, the notes are for her convenience since she can't do Hari-to-English translation for them to ask her questions in real time.

She is expecting this from what they said before. The notes are just notes on their list, like she said. She is fully assuming they'll read what she writes (that is as inextricably a part of writing as using letters is) - not now just means they'll do it afterwards. Wouldn't have dared to ask to take the notes, if she didn't think from what they said that they could translate.

If they don't do it for her, she takes the translator earpieces out of her ears, unclips the piece from the collar of her shirt, takes the controller-and-processor off her waist. She goes where they take her. 

(She fully continues to assume they have lie detection.)

They will notice Elvira and her handler missing right away, but she doesn't know how long it'll take them to realize what happened and to act. 

She doesn't know about population; it's a lot.

She mostly knows laws about mages, like her, though she knows some things about other laws. Do they want to hear about either of those? (She's remembered a word for mages that shows up in tv shows sometimes (used by aliens and humans to talk about both their mages a lot, and when they're trying to figure out what kind of power-havers someone new has), and uses that one; it'll come across as something like 'magic-haver/inherently bad and can't be trusted/needs to be controlled').

Where they take her is an ominous dim windowless room with a woman in flowing black star-speckled clothes sitting on a dais.

Someone managed to figure out from hearing her speak to her translator how to say "why?" and "more this explanation please" in not very good English. The woman on the dais tries these phrases a few times.

They try to get everything they can out of her but that might not be obvious to Elvira since it doesn't involve any torture.

Well, on the list of things that can be in dim windowless rooms this is definitely not the worst of them.

She continues to take it completely for granted that they will start torturing her if she stops telling them things before they want her to.

She's pretty sure mage laws are the opposite of a secret, and can't see any reason human laws would be a secret.

Mages wear collars and aren't allowed to do magic without permission, resist their owners and minders, raise a hand to anyone except under orders in relevant situations, be defiant or disobedient, communicate in secret... Humans also have laws. Humans who break laws are arrested by the police and put in prison. Some things she's pretty sure humans are not allowed to do are murder, robbing banks, terrorism, not paying taxes, torturing without stopping mages who aren't designated for that, taking collars off mages... (she's sure about those last two). 

Also sometimes instead of the police the CIA kills people or takes them prisoner, but she's not actually clear on what the distinction is.

There's also laws about what the government of the country she's from isn't allowed to do. Some of these things are having slaves and stealing people's houses.  (Her knowledge of the law comes basically entirely from media and some lessons, mostly some social studies, anticipation that some mages are police mages when they grow up, and lessons for field cover).

Technology isn't really her area. Some technology she's seen here that her planet also has is aircrafts, refrigerators, and tvs. 

She isn't sure what customs means. She can talk about some holidays celebrated where she's from. Also humans where she's from like sports games. She can describe a variety of sports games. (Her knowledge of these things also comes from media and lessons for field cover).

The woman makes an attempt to ask for more information about mages and humans.

She's a mage. The person who was with her is a human. She's a female mage, he's a male human. Humans and mages generally look like each other. Humans and mages can have babies together but it's illegal. Humans are born from other humans. Mages are born in artificial wombs. Humans and mages are babies and then children and then adults. In the country she's from mages are owned by the government or sold to other people. 

She wants to know more about that last part.