Nod.

"I think I wish I could meet any of them in a place that was - a little less like where I was before."

"I can ask my red-haired brother to come talk to you in the woods sometime if you really want that. I don't know if you do but he'd like it, he'd be happy if we asked."

She smiles a little. "Maybe someday. For now I just want to - stop feeling kind of sick. And - oh - "

She sets her baby down in the crib and scoops her son up and hugs him tight and tells him that he was so, so good, earlier. He hugs her back, only a little less enthusiastically.

He gets into bed and watches them and tries to stay awake.

She hugs her son. 

She... looks kind of uncertainly at the beds.

"One for him and one for us, or one for me and one for you guys, depending what I want. Without him it'd have been more awkward for them, wouldn't it have?

- I want you but if you want some space - or hate fancy beds - that's all right -"

She sets her son down in the floor bed and then climbs into the other.

He does not quite touch her. 

"I don't know what to say."

"Not your fault. None of it's your fault. Just - everything hurts so much less, away from all this."

"We never, ever, ever have to come back. And we can leave tomorrow. Maybe we shouldn't but we can."

She does hug him, then.

"Means a lot that you care. Really a lot."

Hug. 

"Maybe I made it worse by complaining about it the whole way here. It's really just - lots of lights and a bit of a crowd and -

- they're not the ones who made you a slave, I did that."

"You didn't make it hurt."

Hug.

She might end up crying a little before she sleeps. Silently. And only a little.

He sleeps poorly. When he wakes he brings a lot of food to the room and then waits for her to wake and then when that doesn't happen for a while goes out to climb a tree and try to get an angle on the sun. It's setting.

Eventually she does wake up. She eats. She tries to feed her baby. It still isn't working very well.

He comes back. "Hey."

"Hey." 

"Let's introduce you to my father for the obligatory language education - I'm sorry, but it's really obligatory, not only do we need his help to get your family probably but we'd have to sneak out without it and we can't take food if we sneak out - and then let's get ready to go."

"I'll be all right. It's only a day or two. Thank you for - being patient."

Handsqueeze. 

So out they go to another one of the little houses.

She is able to summon a fragile but sufficient amount of cheer for this.

Then she is introduced -- in her own language, this time -- to yet another fairy who - bounces in delight at the sight of her. "You're from the landmass north of here? Scandanavia?"

Nod. "Yes."