And suddenly a person appears, wearing an extremely decorated metal collar with several gems dangling from it. He says something in a foreign language. He's trying to sound apologetic but mostly he sounds confused.

She is also confused!

" - how did you get in here?"

...Okay, he's apparently going to need to set up translation. He tries to look extremely unthreatening and mimes writing. Even if she can't read there's a decent chance she has some writing on hand for doing magic with, right?

She still looks pretty confused, but she gets a piece of paper and a quill pen and an inkwell from her nightstand. She fills the pen and hands it to him.

Oh, does she want his language instead, then? He writes a sentence of the minimum required length to make translation work and hands it back.

She takes it and looks at it and frowns.

"Okay. I can't read this either."

...Her confusion is confusing. He mimes writing again.

She can... try writing a sentence for him and seeing if that's what he wants?

She writes "How did you get here?".

Doesn't matter if some of the ink comes off on his hand when he touches it, as long as he doesn't smudge it too badly to read. If he were patient he'd wait for it to dry properly but instead he's just very careful about it as he touches the wet ink with one hand and one of the transparent gems on his collar with the other. He says something that still isn't understandable and then...

"I was teleported here by accident. I'm sorry to intrude."

"Oh. I didn't realize that was something people could do. Do you - need help getting back to wherever you were before?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Do you know where you're from? This is the co-monarchy of Rainfold."

"I belong to Lady Vesa who holds land in Esona."

"I haven't heard of it. You 'belong' to her?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Just to check, do you want to go back?"

He is nowhere near stupid enough to say no.

"Yes, ma'am."

"Okay. You don't have to. Slavery's illegal in Rainfold and if you were sent here by a magical accident it could be they can't find you here. Even if they can, they might not fault you for just - failing to convince anyone to help you find your way home. But I will help you go home if that's what you want."

"...It would be interesting to know more about your society but I'm needed back home. I'm not especially replaceable."

"All right. I'll see if can find a replacement for me today, and then - I guess we can take you to the library and see if anyone there has heard of where you're from."

"Would the library have a world map?"

"Yes, they'll have an atlas."

"Then I can definitely find where I'm from even if you use different placenames here."

"All right! Hopefully we can figure out where to send you, then."

And she leads him out of her room and has a short conversation with someone else about needing to have someone else cover her patients. The compound seems to be all women, all dark like her and wearing roughly the same uniform, apart from the number and color of painted wooden beads on the necklaces they wear. The rooms are clean but fairly bare.

He tentatively thinks these people might be poor. Any sign of mages or enchanted items?

Nothing obvious.

Yep, poor. He really does want to go home now.

He'll just wait for her to finish her conversation and follow wherever she tells him to go next.

She finishes her conversation and heads out of the compound.

It's a lot more crowded outside, and it smells. A lot of people look pretty poor, though some people are wearing extravagant outfits and jewelry and don't look poor at all. There are homeless people sleeping along the walls of a lot of the buildings. 

Yep, this is what happens when you let everyone choose not to do the worst kinds of work. Of course it is. It's surprising that anyone has any jewelry.

"Who are the rich people?"

"Hm? I dunno, probably businesspeople? Rainfold's a port city, we do a lot of trade with peoples to the west of here."

"I see." So they're people who deal with more functional societies. Of course they are. "Thank you."

"Mhmm. I guess they could also be people in government or from the university, those people tend to be on the wealthy side? But of course most money is in business. That's how it should be."

"How it should be?"

"Yeah. If too much of the money is tied up in the government, it does bad things to incentives."

"I don't understand what that means."

"Oh. Uh, I'm not an economist. Just, my impression is that if too much of the money is in the government, then lots of people are motivated to go into government just for the sake of personal gain, and it's better if those people go into business and have to make money by getting individual people to voluntarily pay for services."

"...You seem to really care about things being voluntary."

" - some things can't be voluntary? Like, we do have laws here. Couldn't have a functional city without them. But - it's better not to force people into things if you can help it."

"Because it's bad or because it causes bad things to happen?"

" - both?"

"What bad things does it cause?"

"Inequality, oppression, unhappiness, being deprived of the ability to pursue the things that are best for you and the people you're responsible for? It depends on the specific situation, of course, but speaking in generalities - "

"...It doesn't seem like you have the opportunity to pursue the things that are best for you or the people you're responsible for here."