Well, fuck.

These fairies don't even super want to keep him overnight, humans are hard to feed and he seems like kind of an idiot. They send some people out to ask around whether other fairies in the area want to trade them for a human.

"I should probably write to my family and let them know it wasn't us. Since they'll be wondering."

"Yeah. Can we write them without just trekking all the way back?"

"We'd have to pay someone to take it but I think it might be worth it."

Nod.

"And you'd have to write it."

"Oh. Right. I can do that, just dictate it for me."

We'll have a cautious night. None of the children misbehaved. (Obviously, nor did I or my wife.) Presumably the human king.

She writes the note and hands it over.

And he heads out to try to find someone he can pay to take the letter north. 

He's back not that much later. "Well, guess what."

"What?"

"There's a court north of here who has a human and wants rid of him before night since they can't feed him through it. They complain that he tried to attack them with a sword after stealing their food."

"That does sound like someone we know."

"And the timing works."

"Yeah.

"Do we... stab him? You won't be entangled anymore, but I guess that also leaves him slow again wherever he ends up."

"I am a fan of not being entangled anymore but - yeah. Maybe we can finagle it so he dies less entangled? But still some?"

"Maybe. I guess he did give a name of some kind to the fairies in Nidaros, does that stick him here? I'm not really sure if his names stay - relevantly significant, after he dies."

"I have no idea. All this is - pretty far outside anything I've ever heard of."

"Right, yeah. I guess we should trade for him either way. It will let him know where we are, though, we should either move after we kill him or be on the lookout for retaliation all night. Because, uh, not a fairy."

"Right, yeah. 

Have you copied any of those books yet, that'd be the easiest thing to trade if they'll take it -"

"One. Is it, though, isn't the paper itself expensive? How many orally recited poems is a human you don't want?"

"We gotta pay however much debt he's accumulated with them, even if they'd gladly be rid of him for free. Books are worth more than paper but one's probably not enough.

A book and some paper and Beowulf? 

If he hadn't stabbed them - 

A book and some paper and Beowulf and his story, which should count for extra because it's relevant."

Nod.

"I don't want to lose this place, we went to all the trouble scouting for food around it. Maybe we can take him in the opposite direction once we have him."