She's only beginning to know things, but it's something to be glad for, seeing people resting and reading and storytelling. And seeing people engaged as well, if they seem happily so. And she doesn't think she's seeing any groups of people who seem to be working all the time while everyone else has free time. Not now, at least. Jewel will probably like the art. (She looks around at it, herself).

...That's interesting. She doesn't really know enough to start guessing at things yet. But it should be easier for them not to stand out than if the age sorting was the other way around, at least. (Households with multiple unrelated pairs aren't more of a surprise for her than households with just the one; she's seen that and the other and many others yet.)

She's not sure exactly what age-group she looks to them, but she will carefully avoid the birthing homes.

She drinks from her hands, then. Tastes the water, as she does.

She'll work on remembering what prices there are, in writing as well as in practice (do they seem about similar for the same thing between different stands?).

...She doesn't like to trouble people, or impose on them. But these people - seem, at least, not to be going short. And it's good to have food, especially at the beginning when they've still to settle in.

She'll let them know she is hungry, though not terribly so and they don't need to trouble themselves if it would be trouble, and that she appreciates it greatly.

Prices seem decently consistent, at least.

They don't think feeding her is any problem at all. They do know things can be a bit odd in market cities, but hospitality applies even here, and she's their guest. (They seem to greatly appreciate her manners, though - the older woman comments outright approvingly, then teases one of her younger companions about his own tendencies around gratitude.)

That'll make them easier to try to remember. And hopefully to find later more predictably.

(What's a market city? What would be the opposite of a market city?)

She appreciates it a lot. Is openly appreciative, and thanks them again. (Appreciates it again in a greater sense for the world). And of course it's good if they think better of her manners, rather than are offended by them or angered by them (or even confused by them). She thanks the older woman - is somewhat self-effacing about it - more so, when the comparison comes. (And if they've ever seen someone take such a comparison as pride, or as thinking more highly of themselves than another, or a place to begin to maneuver for some advantage, they'll find none of that at all in her - not that, no lighter-hearted humor of it. Almost a stepping back, from anything like it at all.) 

Do they seem to want her to choose some food, or to buy her selections of food they want to show off or think a visitor should try or are themselves excited about, or something yet other?

A market city is a place primarily for trade, or for acquiring very odd things you normally have more trouble getting, or for meeting new people from all over the area or even world, or for figuring out where you want to go if you don't know. They're massive, in the locals' opinions - the largest hit several hundred thousand people even on the edges of peak season. The one they're going to is on the big end, hitting around a hundred thousand - and it's trough season right now for this city. Formal trade is more of a thing there - the locals seem under the vague impression that most people don't actually use money basically ever outside of them, but that people who are very nomadic will carry stuff they can use in market cities anyways because market cities are interesting. Most of a market city's population is itinerant; it'd be stressful to live in a place with a market all the time, after all.

Most settlements are just normal. People live there for a year or several, especially if they have kids of the right age or are older or have a more settled temperament. You don't do the formal trade stuff in normal areas - people just help each other. (Of course, if you're there for like six months and ask for a lot of resources and never help back and don't have a good excuse and aren't pleasant to be around, you'll often eventually get pushed out. This almost never comes up. People like being helpful and contributing to the community-world.)

(She can get all this pretty easily. One of the youths travels a lot and has been to most of the bigger market cities in the world, and has enough opinions about them to draw in comments from others in their group and also passer-by.)

They very politely give her an opportunity to choose her own food, but if she hesitates they'll start excitedly making suggestions or sharing their own meals.

That's all very good to know (and beyond what she could get from command of the language alone); she listens attentively and gratefully. (It's interesting to know, too - this world, the people here and how they are and how they live and what they find obvious and what they like and want.)

She does hesitate. It would be good to have something that would keep for a little, be sharable later, but it might be rude to put something they provide her with away rather than eating it. Which is alright - anything she could have used to buy anything if they hadn't been so generous, she will still have - but possibly it would be polite enough to choose something to keep if she also takes something to eat immediately? And she wouldn't want to impose on them more by choosing something more expensive, but choosing something very cheap might be offensive, and she doesn't know where the line might fall...

She will accept suggestions and sharing with more quiet smiles and thanks.

Her companions smile at her, and share more, and try to draw her own stories out of her.