This is a city, if your standards for "city" don't require skyscrapers, electricity, or plumbing. She's landed on a side street; to her left, the crosswise thoroughfare has people hollering about their things for sale, people hurrying on foot and poking along on horseback to get here and there, storefronts and apartments in two and three story structures. The street she's standing on is quieter, houses and less customer-facing businesses, though it has its share of spillover traffic; she has not yet been noticed, by that fellow leading a goat or that woman with a basket of laundry or that family all holding hands so as not to lose each other. It's a cool day, a little misty.
"Probably helping move heavy things, to start; once she has some money for supplies she'll start making things to sell."
Deskyl curls up at the base of the wall just out of sight of the gate for a nap, and after a couple hours they head back to the city to try again at the most promising of the employers from the day before.
Annoyed workers aren't her problem.
DZ doesn't have the best grasp of the local economy, but she's been paying enough attention to prices to make a reasonable guess of what a dockworker might be paid, and see to it that Deskyl isn't underpaid too dramatically. It remains to be seen whether half a day's work is enough for a meal and a room, though.
DZ can handle that part, it should be fine.
Deskyl does a few hours' work at the docks the next morning, and collects her pay before heading back to the Temple-Guild.
DZ returns the greeting, and Deskyl settles in to meditate again.
"How are the whitemages doing?"
"Yes sir. She doesn't particularly like healing, but she's willing to do it every week or two until she figures out something better for them."
She nods. "She doesn't think she's going to be able to reverse dwindling right away in any of the mages, but she expects to be able to help in other ways - she might be able to stop them from dwindling if she's there when they use their magic, or change the details of how they're dwindled or how they'll dwindle in the future. Learning any of those will help her learn to reverse it; do you know what would be best for her to focus on?"