"That's concerning."

"Yeah. Little bit. If I start acting weird around you– I don't actually know if there's anything you could do to find out what's up with me unless I give you free rein to order me."

"Yeah, I don't know either. I am less sure I should take you to where I live now."

"Okay, well, we could just talk here instead? I should probably go back to the mortal world eventually anyway, I'm not sure I can just stay here all the time."

"It would get annoying to feed you. What did you want to talk about?"

"Um, just checking that you said sorcery can't be done in the mortal world? And– do you have to be a specific kind of fairy to do it, or can all fairies do sorcery, or…?"

"Yeah, it doesn't work there, and anybody can do sorcery as long as they're in Fairyland."

"Uh. Anybody meaning mortals too…?"

"Yes."

"How long does it take to learn?"

"It's not just one thing where you learn it and you're done. A few weeks for fairylights, I guess."

"Oh, right. Uh, you said you were… between sixty and a hundred? Are all fairies immortal, like, I'd guess that from you calling other people 'mortal', but, just checking?"

"Yes, we're immortal."

"… I think you said you can do healing with sorcery? Does that apply to aging too?"

"I don't know how to do that, but yes."

"Would it be difficult to figure out, do you know…? Because it would be really nice if I could live for longer than another like eighty years or whatever."

"I'd need to find a library but it's probably not that hard to pick up."

He nods. "I feel like there was something else I was gonna ask you but I still don't remember that last bit of our conversation, so," he shrugs.

"I don't remember it in much detail, just that you wanted to do something unsupervised and wouldn't tell me what it was."

He gets out his phone and has a look at the note again to see if it mentions anything.

"… Opinions on stopping Yellow?"

"Stopping him from doing what?"

"Taking more people to enslave, I think."

"He got me in trade from a much worse master and you literally told him your name when asked and we were his only vassals, Yellow is just not a big deal."

He shrugs. "Okay. I assume the much worse master would be a lot harder to take, and I'm not suicidal, so I won't suggest trying that. Uh. Anything you think you could use a mortal for?"