Cackling may continue until Promise stops making that face. It may, however, cease after about fifteen seconds if she continues to make that face. It's only hilarious for so long. After that point, it's merely really really funny.

"I'm glad my nickname amuses you so much."

"Aw, no offense meant. I just like making stupid puns. And your name is a word, it's easy. I probably won't make any more, it's not the best material. Not like Peter and the "hook" jokes. Man, that was fun. He hit me with his baseball bat for one of them. Good times."

"I'm not offended. Do I want this story?"

"Eh, it wasn't even that bad. It's just he ended up sleeping with this really rich guy, and I made the same joke about how "I guess we could call you... a hooker?" six times in two hours. The guy turned out to be really nice! Pity he got eaten. Peter was really broken up about it for a few weeks."

"Eaten?"

"Yeah, a couple of days later there was this noble vampire of the Red Court who came in with a retinue and tried to set up an enclave by turning some people into vampires. They ate a bunch of people, among them Rich Guy Whose Name I Don't Remember- was it actually "Rich"? I think it might have been Rich. They ate a bunch of people, including Rich, and we had to kill them. Sally made this sunlight bomb, completely shredded them, it was really cool. Wish they hadn't gotten Rich, though. He was nice."

"Your world sounds very complicated."

"It was at that. I think I'll miss it, nasty fatal place that it was. Everything and its mother wanted to kill you, but under all the hatred and death it had real heart. And meat products. I'm definitely going to miss meat."

"Sorry. Fairyland is very, very short on animals that aren't a transformed fairy or something."

"Maybe with enough magic, we can develop a meat substitute that doesn't taste like woodchips and sadness."

He sighs. "And maybe a beautiful sparkling unicorn will descend from the sky to spread peace across the land. And we can eat that instead."

"If I knew what meat tasted like I might be able to recommend something similar. As it is we'll just have to have you try things until you know what you like."

"You have had meat before," comments Ari. "You envassalled yourself with the last of my beef jerky. On the other hand, it did seem like you wanted to throw it up immediately, so you might not be the best judge of its flavor. Anyway, weird fairy plant life is delicious, I just wish there was weird fairy meat as well. Though it'd probably taste like bubblegum and dewdrops or something."

"Oh, that was meat? I didn't like it at all. Too salty. Didn't remind me of anything in particular, but I know where to get salt if you like it."

"Salt is a good thing to have!"

"I don't put it in things when I'm making food for myself, but there's a long vein of it near the libraries. Though it's possible I should find a different library just in case someone lies in wait for me at the one I've been to before..."

"Wait- libraries? This is a new concept. I mean, not libraries in general, but- libraries?"

"Were you not expecting libraries?"

"Are these magical libraries, or just... libraries? "The libraries" sounded sort of magic-y."

"They... have enchantments on them and books about magic in them, among other books, if that's what you mean. They're places where there are lots of books, and fairies can go there and via one means or another leave with some of them."

"Ah. Magical-ish. Fair."

"My collateral has certainly expired, but I can probably pay my way into one with some of the frostberries, after we have a crop. But the more I think about it the less I want to go back to the same library. I've frequented it pretty recently; one doesn't keep a sorcerer vassal and forbid her books."

"Sounds like a good idea to stay away, yeah. If you've got anything at that library that you were just dying to read, I could go with a fake mustache on and pick it up for you?"

"It's not readily obvious to me how you'd get there without flying, and a mortal will get more attention than a leaflet."

"We can make me some wings out of papier mache. To go with the mustache. It'll be great, I'll look like a cross between an old-timey muscleman and Tinkerbelle!"