"Oh, do the Bells keep each other in check, then?"

"I guess. I mean, I think they all want about the same things, so they don't... actually have to..."

"It's good to know, though. Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Next he looks for someone who does seem important, but is still not too busy. Although it's hard to figure out who exactly is important here and how they convey that to the people around them. Maybe someone that other people defer to, maybe someone who seems to have a lot magic...?

Well, there's the healer's office over there?

That might do. At least, he doesn't have better ideas. He stops in to ask if they'd mind talking for a while between patients.

"Not at all! I'm the chattiest wizard on the block! Need directions? Lonesome? Looking into magic lessons? Admiring my haircut?" (It's a kind of punky haircut, black tipped with pink and blue.)

"It is an interesting haircut and I suppose I am interested in magic lessons but I was going to ask if you're flourishing."

"Huh, is this for a blogging project or something? Ask a bunch of people if they're flourishing and post it as a human interest sort of thing?"

"No, I'm investigating Vanda Nossëo for my planet which recently came into contact with it. Maybe if I ever have a blog I'll do that, though."

"Oh. Well, let's see, what are the elements of flourishing. I have a meaningful job where I help people, check, I have awesome hobbies, check, I do not have a girlfriend so no check there, I have kickass style, check, the next Hollow Knight game is not coming out for years but is that really a dent in my flourishing per se, I'm gonna call that a no. So I suppose my final evaluation is yes but Vanda Nossëo will not help you at all with getting a girlfriend."

He smiles. "No, I'm afraid they don't seem to be helping with that at all. How did you end up with your meaningful job?"

"Took wizard lessons! I... didn't actually like them very much, to tell you the truth, but I stuck with it long enough to get the healing spell under my belt, and left school with just that instead of sticking around long enough to learn to make prestidigitators or something, and now if somebody falls off a ladder or gets the sniffles I'm on it!"

He concludes that this person is not actually important relative to the local society. Only more so than anyone he's ever met before. "That makes sense to me, thank you. What would happen if your use of your healing spell displeased the local government somehow?"

"- it's really hard to abuse a healing spell. I guess I could... uh... pretend to heal people and not actually do it? Go somewhere really backwater and... take sides in a war or something? What do you mean?"

"You could visit my planet where people are sometimes tortured to death and heal them so that it would last longer."

"WOW that would be so fucked up. That gives me the heebie-jeebies just to think about. They would for sure arrest me if I did that."

"What would that mean for you, exactly?"

"- I'd... go to jail?"

"I... have questions about that but they're largely questions about whether I should trust official sources on the material conditions involved, and if I can't then you might not be in a position to tell me so, so instead - what would you think about someone if you heard they had been sent to jail?"

"I mean, it'd depend what they were in for, if they stole some magic shit so they could do a heist and rescue a dude being tortured to death on your planet but they had to lock them up for causing a diplomatic incident that would be cool of them honestly. If they tortured a dude to death their own self no way would they ever get an invite to my parties."

"Sounds like a very reasonable standard to hold your party guests to. Thank you for being so helpful to me."

"No problem!"

Next he tries people-watching for a while, although he doesn't especially expect it to be informative.