...She doesn't think that would be a secret. If people from Earth come over she doesn't think that'll help the locals attack them, and if the locals go to Earth they can find it out in about fifteen minutes anyway. She's not really sure what they want to know though.

Mages are born in artificial wombs and raised in magehouses. The government runs both these things. When mages grow up the government either keeps them and moves them to different jobs the government uses mages for, like police mages, or they get sold to other people who want mages, like if someone wants their own medical mage.

The woman has apparently been sort of starting to pick up some English from listening to this. "Remove collar illegal why?"

A mage without a collar can do any of their magic at all without permission. They could run away, or attack people, or do other damage, and then the government has to come deal with it. (That can sometimes happen anyway, but without a collar is dangerous in highest magnitude.) Keeping mages contained is part of public safety for the government.

"Human collar?"

"I'm sorry, I don't understand."

"Collar keeping mages contained. Collar keeping humans contained?"

Terror spike.

Collars are for [that other word for mages]. Not humans, never humans. (And, because that might not be clear enough, given that they might notice humans wearing collars (terror spike) would also be practically pointless -)

In fiction sometimes humans get powers some way, and they're still humans and wouldn't have collars. In fiction sometimes humans meet aliens, and sometimes the aliens have [that word for mages] but sometimes they have some other kind of power haver, and those also wouldn't wear collars. Collars are for [that word for mages]. Definitely not anyone who isn't.

"More mages explanation please," she asks, using that word with the negative connotations.

Flinch at please (she's pretty sure she's conveyed pretty clearly which thing she is, by now...)

Mages are terrible and treacherous, so they're kept contained and with strict rules and punishments, and that way they can be useful and be kept from destroying things.

(It doesn't at all occur to her to try to tell some other story, or to avoid that one. Still doesn't want to be tortured to death, when the CIA finds out what she's been doing here. And that's been in media too - one movie she remembers with weird underwater people who grabbed a mage from a boat that went under, and the mage went renegade and tried to deceive them about mages. And obviously they were suspicious pretty quickly, and then humans showed up and everything got sorted out, and the renegade got taken by the Authority of Mages and that was that (lots of shaking in the mages' hall, at that part).

Other things in that vein. No one's ever fooled for very long, or reacts to it as anything other than deception at the end, or objects to actual reality when they hear it (unless they're also been taken over by renegades or something like that). Not on her radar, as fantasy let alone reality.)

"Contained with strict rules and punishments. Why collar?"

(Great, did something about her explanation not make sense? (How ?))

Without a collar it would be easier for a mage to break rules, avoid getting caught for longer, run away, destroy things, because they could do any of their magic. More mages could do that. (She trembles.)

"Mages break rules, punishments?"

(Looking very down.) Mages who break rules are punished, yes. 

"Mages break rules why?"

(...they still probably have a truth spell of some kind.)

She thinks sometimes by accident or because they tried not to but failed, but it might always be because they actually wanted to break the rule because of the inherent treachery or trying to do something else worse, and also they need to be taught and have it reinforced that they'd better not do it, so it's punished anyway.

Sometimes because they want to. They want to try secretly communicating with someone so they try it and things like that. (She does not mention running away here...)

Sometimes mages will say it was because they were upset - and that made them want to argue with a minder or destroy something and so on. That might always also be because of the inherent treachery.

Mages who are overly bad at following the correct rules are killed in childhood, but that still leaves everyone else. And they're taught a lot but that still doesn't do everything.

(Truth spells don't generally check for completeness. So she's not going to mention her co-field-mage who she's pretty sure has a habit of breaking minor rules to get minder attention on him and away from someone else. Or anything else in that vein.)

(She says things carefully and she keeps eyes on the ground and she shakes.)

"Humans break rules?"

...humans break laws sometimes? She thinks some places humans can be have non-law rules and humans sometimes break those too.

"Humans break rules, punishments?"

(Didn't she already talk about this... Well, repetition is better than all sorts of other things.)

Humans who break laws are arrested and can go to prison or have to pay fines. Or sometimes the CIA comes after them, she's still not clear on the distinction. Humans who break rules of specific places can be - kicked out of a place? Or have to sit in a specific room, in a human school? Or some other things she thinks.

Humans are not punished like mages, that is completely not allowed (tremble).

"Humans are not punished like mages why?"

(Tremble). They're not mages. It would be bad.

Things like that happened more in history, like humans used to have human slaves in history, but now it's not allowed. (...Also if she understands correctly humans don't heal the same, but she is not saying that.)

"Not allowed human slaves why?"

It's bad (tremble). Humans - have human rights and things? (That's mostly from field cover classes, again.)

"Bad? Have rights?"

(How is that first one a translator problem.)

Not good? Not acceptable? 

There's a list of things humans should get to have because of existing and being humans, like um, property and freedom of speech and freedom to travel. Actually more than one list, they're not all the same; as she understands that's partially because people disagree and partially because they're just talking about different parts of things.