"Yes!  The Fay came from a different world to my world, too!  And then a lot of them went back, but some of them stayed.  I've met a few of them - wish I could meet more!"

They were very curious and eager to talk, and - unlike most of the other Court visitors - not at all upset to let the very young Princess listen in.  Occasionally they'd even answer her questions!

"... You're undying?  I didn't even know that was possible... Barvid -"

- the evil wizard who's usurped her throne; Eriape might be able to see a momentary expression of distaste -

"- says he's undying, but I thought he was just lying?"

"He Might Be! It's Very Tricky to figure out how to be Undying. This Barvid- is he a Smart Man? Does he have Badger Friends?"

This might be Useful!

"I've never met him - they say he's smart.  He's definitely got new magic nobody else has, especially battle magic.  He says he's invented it... Fraddir says he might be telling the truth there.  That'd mean he's smart, right?

"I haven't heard he likes badgers.  Or any animals, really."

"Inventing new Magic shows some Cunning, it is True, but- If he doesn't like Badgers, he cannot be Very Smart."

(badgers cheer)

Eriape looks at the Girl with renewed interest.

"What kind of Battle Magic does he have?"

She breaks into a smile on that first response.  "Oh - badgers are wise?  Smart?"

"They didn't tell me the whole story - about the battles - but I overheard -

"He cast the whole army into fear and confusion even before anything else.  And then he threw fire over them.  And reached out at a distance to make the catapults misfire.  And - and -"

^{"- and Papa tried to be brave, they said, but the fire burned him -"}

(She's openly crying now, not even thinking about her disguise. Though when she does remember it, she'll remember that any number of girls' fathers died in that battle.)

She nods, listening to the description with Interest.

She is Crying! I should Comfort her. 

Clarabella walks over and leans against Lila, with some of her badger friends. 

"This man seems to have Good Spells. You should Learn Magic even Better than He, and Defeat Him. Since you are a Girl and you Like Badgers, you are likely to be Successful in this Endeavour."

Lila flops down sitting on the floor and cuddles the badgers up around her.

Eriape has the same Plan as Fraddir!

"Yes!  I'm trying to - or, well, I want to - Fraddir's trying to teach me, but I can't do much yet.  And he has to spend most of his time with the forge; he's making something magical for me but he hasn't told me what."

Somehow it doesn't feel right to show Eriape her invisibility ring.  That's something for enemies or the wild.  Instead, she sticks her hand in the pocket of her homespun skirt.  Yes - there're still a few lodeflower leaves there.  And that's one spell Fraddir and Selma both made her practice till she got.

"I could show you a pointing spell if you want?"

"Yes! I would like to See!"

(Editor's Note: Eriape has Permanent Arcane Sight!)

Lila takes out the lodeflower leaf.  It's not quite dried, but not fresh either; Selma had plucked it a couple days ago.  She rips it into three parts, breathes on them, and (with a whispered "pardon me" to nudge the badgers aside) sets them on the ground in an equilateral triangle.

Then she takes out a sliver of wood from her pocket.  It'd come from the door to Fraddir's cottage; Selma had made sure she'd always have it to point her way home -

- and she shakes her head.  "Oh, I'm not sure if it'll work from here.  And... even if it did work, how would it point to something in another world...  Got something I can use?  Something that comes from something else, like maybe a bit of fur from a badger?"

Eriape opens her belt-purse and digs around inside, and picks out a few things.

"This a Little Leather Sack that used to be full of Basilisk Scales, but I keep Copper Wire in it."

"This is a Horse Chestnut. I think they're Pretty. I have Preserved it Magically, though a Clever Spell of my own Devising."

"This is piece of Adamant, that I broke off a Ruined War Golem with a Mighty, but Well-Known Spell"

"This is a Rock I found on the Beach. It is Interesting, because it has a Natural Hole Straight Through."

"This is an Orb. It is Magic. I do not know whose it is, but it is not Mine."

She hands Lila a black glass ball, very heavy for its size, with tiny white sparks zipping around on the inside

She looks at the girl. "Would any of those do?"

Princess Eriape has so many fun things!

"Fun!  I think the rock and the sack might work - but I know the adamant will!"

She takes the piece of adamant, breathes on it, carefully touches it to each of the three parts of the leaf, and sets it in the middle of the triangle.   Then, she says - in another language, if Eriape notices that beneath her spell - "Find what it's from!"

The leaf-parts quiver on the floor, and then all three of them rush - like in a very small and precise wind - to cluster together at one point on one side.

"And that's the way to the war-golem!  What's a war-golem?  Do you have any of them?"

The magical flows are more like the filings drawn to a lodestone than any Golarion spell. It's a shape of magic so strange, one could not even call it sorcery, and Eriape looks closely. "A Good Spell," she opines, judiciously.

"And it is is Right! That is the way to Absalom, the greatest City of the World. I visited it as part of my Grand Tour, after I got Teleport. Outside the Walls, one can still find Great Artifacts from its many Wars, and the War Golem was one Such."

"The Golem, you see, is a Creature made from Magic and Elemental Earth. I do not have Any, because they Cannot be Enchanted to Talk, and are therefore Not as Splendid as the Badger, which can be Enchanted to Talk."

She grins, showing the black void inside her mouth. 

"Now it is My Turn. I will Cast a Very Impressive Spell!"

She [Levitates] up to a chandelier at the top of the Lair, and casts [Extended Daylight] on it.

"Behold!"

Everything suddenly gets very bright. Directly below the chandelier, there's some potted plants, in glazed black ceramic pots, decorated with little badgers playing along the rims. 

"What did you Think of That?"

Lila can't see any of the magical flow, but she likes the part she can see!

"Wow!  You can actually climb up into the air!?  And - you made the badgers Talking?"  She pets a nearby badger.  "Is that with that Obverse Power you mentioned?"

She's seen magical light - not often, but sometimes.  But she's never seen anyone flying or climbing through the air before!

"Here in Golarion, badgers in general regrettably cannot Speak as men do. I myself Enchanted my Friends here to have Mental Abilities far beyond those of the Common Man! They are all Priest-Rich in Wisdom and yet have all of a Wizard's Cunning! The one you are Cuddling is Clarabella."

Eriape pats her head, casting a spell. "And now you can [Fly]"

Lila flaps her arms like wings, testing - and her feet are off the ground!

Laughing triumphantly, she leaps into the air, circling around the top of the book pile and jumping off the blackboard and doing somersaults in midair.  Her hair is waving in her face and her skirts flapping ever which-way, but she doesn't care at all; she's FLYING!

"Thanks!  And - hey!" she calls down at Eriape and the badgers from somewhere near the ceiling.  "Wanna come fly with me?"

"I have work to do! The Eternal Badger isn't going to summon itself, you know."

Also she most certainly hasn't prepared two of the same spell. That fly is a less essential part of her personal defence kit. 

Lila hangs in the air above Eriape.

"Oh, you're still summoning it?  What're you going to do with it?  Where does it live?  And what're you going to do if you end up summoning another Pri -- uh, girl instead?"

"Oh, and - badgers, you wanna come fly with me?  I can scoop you up!  Well, one of you!"