a guide to fairies entering the service of some other fairies
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"- is that the whole list?"

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"No? I don't know if I know a list exactly - various kinds of doing wrong by someone when in their debt, and then some things that are a disaster even if you were not previously in their debt, like lying, and betraying an oath. And killing someone, I guess, unless they're enough in your debt that you were entitled to."

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"...mmm. And right now I'm in debt to you again?"

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"Yes. Saying 'I rescind your orders' was the most expensive thing someone's ever had me do for them and now you are in debt to a degree that, if we were in a court, would get me in serious trouble."

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"Is that even worth trying to fix at this point after what the drink did?"

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Sigh. "Probably. It - there might be some courts that'd take us if we were clearly being perfectly responsible in every respect aside from being as badly entangled as we are. There are courts that'd take a mother and a child, or two lovers. The way we are now - it looks like we're both irresponsible and astoundingly entangled, and that makes getting tangled up with us a very bad idea."

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"Okay. What do I need to do for you to make up for it?"

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"I could hurt you. That's mostly how my court got me clear, so it'd be fair, but also you look like you can barely walk anyway and we have to walk well east of here. We could have sex. You could tell me a story or sing me a song or give me food that's yours, if you had any, which you don't. I could ask you questions but I'm not going to because I'm really tired of asking you questions and it'd take so many of them at this point."

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She can sing.

...She can sing pretty decently and in harmony.

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"Sure, fine. It'll take a whole night at that rate but you already destroyed my entire life so I didn't have plans for that night anyway."

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Promise sighs and goes on singing rather than address the question of what she's going to do about it if this person tries to have sex with her.

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A couple hours later when they've stopped walking to drink dew from some bushes, she lies down. "Now give me a massage."

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Promise squeezes her shoulder for about half a second and then rockets vertically into the air at high speed, grabbing a twig off a tree on her way up.

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 - what.

"Come back here!" she yells after her once she realizes what is going on, which is not immediately.

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Promise does come back eventually, still holding her stick. It's got blood on the end of it and she's dripping more from her ears.

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"What the hell were you thinking? You can't - if either of us go off on our own no sane civilization will ever take in either of us -"

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Promise taps her ear. "Can't hear you."

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She considers her for a second and then shrugs. 

How far apart are they.

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Promise is perched in a tree branch, about ten feet away.

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She starts walking in the direction they were walking in.

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Promise gets up in the air again and follows.

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Does she at any point get close enough to grab.

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She's maintaining a fair amount of personal space but will dip lower when the foliage is closely spaced.

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...probably this should wait for when she sleeps.

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Which she does, after a while.

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