"Thataway," she says, pointing towards the castle. "You shouldn't give people's names to fairies."

"Well no one SAID anything."

"We didn't."

"I'm going off to find my sister. Father will fix this, when he gets back, and he'll beat you within an inch of your life for trying to steal us, if he lets you live at all." 

He spits on the ground and heads off towards the castle.

She watches him go, sadly.

"Aww. I didn't even get to tackle him."

"Would the human king really attack me, if we sped him up somehow -"

"I think he was talking to me. You he'd - well, he'd wait until he though he knew what was going on, and then - I don't know what he'd do, really."

"It's just, my brother wanted him, and he's a king and some kinda undying magical entity, so if we had a way to hand him over we could pay back most of the food, even if he did starve a week later."

"He's what? - and you can't just kidnap the Emperor of Scandinavia, it'd have all kinds of terrible consequences for the realm."

"We could probably get him to come to the fairy circle. The one in Sweden. Of course it would move up my niece's timelines on certain things, I think he's planning to marry her as soon as she's of age and not, ah, obviously his daughter."

"Hmmm." He looks assessingly at Vigdis. "Does she want that?"

"She wants to rule Scandinavia. I admit it's the closest she's likely to get to it."

"Well now you've gone and made it weird, and I'll have to think about it again, won't I."

"In an ideal world I suppose the thing to do would be to break the spell."

"Well if they had him they could study him. Or - 

- or if the debt tracks the person, not the body, then if he died indebted the new body would get fast again, I should think -"

"...Yes, that seems possible. And then the slow people really would be free of him."

"Hello? Standing right here? You have any idea how devastating that would be for the realm? At least I think it would be, I'm not entirely sure what anybody's talking about."

"Going off how courts collapse, I'm guessing you're right about that? I just don't care very much."

"You'd be getting more than a million people mixed up in a massive succession crisis. If it didn't all get split up twelve ways, which it probably will - "

"They would still have governments. Just - ones a little closer to home. A little more likely to understand their situations."

"They're going to get reconquered all over again, probably by someone a lot stupider, and the intervening wars'll be your fault."

"Technically not. If you kill someone fairly and then a lot of things happen as a result you don't incur debt for that, even if you predicted it or wanted it."

"M'not talking about your fairy debt rules. I mean you're gonna wreck the entire country. - I'm gonna go find my siblings."

And she heads off towards the castle.