Lotus didn't start the fire - that was probably the dragon, she doesn't know for sure but it's the most likely hypothesis given, you know, dragon - but she was ready for it. She had gone for the library, joining the foolhardy, heroic-minded individuals rushing in and out to save the books. She had grabbed the books she needed and then raced across the campus, heading for the teleportation circles. The building is unguarded, for once - not surprising given, you know, dragon - so she slips in. She picks the nearest circle, disrupts it so it will pick a destination at random - should make her harder to track down if that's anybody's priority given, you know, dragon - and steps in.
"It's not rude to ask but it can be very destructive to assume my true form on Earth so I'd rather not."
"That is also an excellent reason not to. Did Kanimir look like he was coming? I suppose we should probably actually leave and recast the spell and see if he can scry this conversation from that one."
"OK, let's go then."
She climbs back down and dismisses the spell once Anaphiel is out. The rope falls down. She recasts and tosses it back up.
"The thought is that you could go up and see if you can past-scry our conversation in the last one, see if it's they are the same space."
"Alright."
He goes up.
He comes down again.
"It doesn't count as the same space but I could past-scry it by using you rather than the location as a focus."
"Huh. I would have expected that if they are different planes you wouldn't be able to past-scry across them at all. I guess that's not secure, good to know."
"Three or four, depending on how you count it. Fairyland is Earth, but in a sort of pocket dimension that spits you out into normal space if you venture beyond its borders."
"Huh. Our cluster is larger. We have a heaven and hell and an assortment of other afterlives, an intermediate plane of the dead, six elemental planes, and the plane of shadow. We don't have a fairlyland, though we do have fairies."
"Our vampires are different - or, I suppose, Kanimir is particularly inhibited in the mind-control department. I am pretty sure our angels are not secretly winged light trees. Humans seem the same so far, but I haven't seen any other humanoids here. I would assume your fairies are also different."
"Vampires cannot mind control people. Your vampires can mind control people?"
"By staring into their eyes, yes. Also they have some degree of control over vampires they turn. I suppose I can take this as sufficiently independent confirmation that it's safe to look directly at him now."
"Those are not things vampires here can do, no. It is safe to look directly at him."
She does this, because he continues to be pretty and it is good to look at pretty things.
"So, Hell. Plane where people get tortured for eternity. I assume there are jailors and torturers? What are they like?"
"Demons. The really big ones are pretty much just evil as far as we can tell, the little ones are pretty much just people who come from a shitty place."
"We have demons too, but it seems inadvisable to extrapolate the nature of your demons from mine."
"I know a few who are perfectly nice! Very minor, powers based on some facets of human psychology that got classified as sins at one point."
"See, that is one of the things I would have been wrong about if I had extrapolated! I am pretty sure none of my demons are 'perfectly nice'. What are perfectly nice sins?"