"That won't work."

"Mom, you can't just kidnap people. What about you, you're just gonna let them do this?"

"I mean apparently we're not missing very much," says Vigdis. "Don't tell him your name, apparently that gets you stuck forever or something."

Sigrun makes a very frustrated noise and stomps off back towards the castle. 

Is Catherine okay.

"I think she'll probably come back if she doesn't slow down. It's the other one I'm really worried about."

"I'm sorry I'm not better at people things."

"No, you were great. It's - certain things predictably happen to people's ability to take certain people seriously, when everyone around them is trying to convince them not to listen."

"...yeah but still if this was my brother's problem I think he'd have figured it out somehow."

"Maybe so. But we work with what we have.

"...the thing about my son is that I'm not actually entirely sure he won't just try to attack us, as terrible of an idea as this is? And I would really prefer that he didn't drop dead on the spot, or anything."

"Right now he's not in debt so if he hurts someone he'll incur some, but not - drop dead. But if he runs up his debt a lot and keeps doing it that'd be dangerous. I want to say that I can probably stop him before that because he is a child but - for obvious reasons fairies don't really get into fights, I haven't actually hit someone who was trying to hit back before, I am not too confident how it'd shake out. He won't hurt you, will he?"

"Not badly."

"I can tackle him! If that helps, I mean."

"That would help! You two can punch each other as much as you want and it won't be dangerous for him."

"Nice."

Tyr is a while in coming. He's noticed that his sisters have disappeared into thin air, and he decides to toss a stick into the fairy ring and then poke the air above it with another, to see if this explains anything about what just happened. But then he reaches too far and trips, at which point he falls into the circle.

"Hey, dude."

"What's - where did you come from?"

"We've been here this whole time, just moving faster than your eye can track us. Humans move very slowly compared to fairies, and compared to anyone entangled with fairies."

"What is that supposed to mean? Who are you? What're you doing with my mom?"

So he repeats his story.

"And what, you're just gonna keep us trapped here now?"

"I don't know what I am going to do. You can afford to stay a while without anyone missing you, though."

"I don't want to stay! Where's Sigrun?"

He winces.

"You should answer that," he tells Vigdis.