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Daphne is not in the relatively safe areas of her hometown or college campus, so it isn't really all that surprising when she suddenly is in a random forest instead of walking back to her car.
It's a little surprising; normally she is permitted to enter random forests of her own will. But not that much.
She starts walking, looking for whatever inane plot she will be required to participate in/thwart this time.
Eventually she sees a cottage. She makes for that--random houses in the woods are prime weird shit locales.
She knocks on the door. "Excuse me! I don't know what's going on here but I'd rather get it over with sooner rather than later so I can go home!"
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"All the mountains high enough that people aren't likely to start living there are pretty far away from here too, though granted not as far as Antarctica."
imeanforever
"All right. I'll just wait until I have the silence ward down and then I'll get a cutting of my tree and some seeds and go to the Valley Continent."
"How do you have a continent of just valleys? It sounds like it would have to have mountains, too."
imeanforever
"It's not valleys. The middle of the continent is very low, below sea level, and I imagine it varies somewhat but the entire continent is overall valley-shaped. It should be easy to gate to and it's very, very far away from Queenscontinent."
"Oh. That makes much more sense.
...If you're going to do this, I trust you implicitly, but I still feel that just to be on the safe side I should put word out around campus that it's a bad idea to give out your name to strange short people with wings."
...If you're going to do this, I trust you implicitly, but I still feel that just to be on the safe side I should put word out around campus that it's a bad idea to give out your name to strange short people with wings."
imeanforever
"That's very reasonable. I'm on the tall end for Fairyland fairies but there are a few taller than me, or even taller than you, so you know."
"Definitely good to know. Strange people with wings should not be handed names, especially if they're short but even if they're not."
imeanforever
"Nor should anyone take food from them, especially if it's unfamiliar and plant-based."
"True, but even if it's a human taking food from random strangers is a bad idea most of the time. We can't vassal people but there are still some very unpleasant people who think it would be great fun to put nasty things in food and then feed it to unsuspecting strangers."
"Yeah. Honestly I think Fairyland fairies aren't necessarily worse than humans, in general, just...with more opportunity to be not nice."
"Yeah. And no societal expectations not to, and no formative years for a lot of you to have them ingrained if there were..."
imeanforever
"There are some expectations. The choosing one's own nickname thing. Apart from 'nicknames to annoy the Queen' you can pick anything you want. Even Thorn didn't nickname me something else - well, 'leaflet', sometimes, but when it wasn't that or my real name it was always Promise."
"Huh. So it's not as bad as it could possibly be, but...well, you turned out alright, anyway."
"Oh?"
imeanforever
"My nickname is Promise because when I started, when I was still in my tree and all I had was common knowledge, I promised myself to - be like I am, instead of like most fairies are."
"Awww. I'm sorry, that sounded patronizing, I didn't mean it that way. I think you're a very admirable person."
"You're welcome."
imeanforever
So when Promise has the silence ward condensed as she likes, she gates to her tree; she finds it unguarded, and, invisible, takes a cutting and seeds of her favorite other plants, then goes back to the mortal world. Then she gates to the Valley Continent, and finds a nice place to plant everything, far far away from Thorn until and unless she's ready to go back.
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