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When she thinks she can see him without crying again, she holds her baby close and walks silently back to Rana's.
The room has been replaced with - something else. She has no idea what this means. She has nobody to ask but Rana. Everything she asks places her further in his debt, of course, but it hardly matters now.
She steps inside.
"'m not supposed to accept favors," she says, quietly. "I don't think. If you're not him."
Nod. She can answer questions, that's good, that'll pay off whatever debt she accidentally incurred before she started thinking about it.
He looks anxiously at the stairwell. Maitimo's not back. He might be a year, or something.
"I feel like I have not succeeded at communicating that nothing bad is going to happen here. I don't - know where my assumptions are wrong."
"I just - I don't want to get stuck here without him. Or my son, he's still - he's with - the person who is I guess not your father."
"You're not stuck. You can go back through the door anytime. It'd mean a lot to us if you didn't, yet, because Milliways is really useful and if your world stays in contact with it it might be able to help you too, but you can leave any time you want."
Maybe if he just sits here for a while she will eventually calm down or think about a clear explanation of the situation.
She is calming down a tiny bit but is not going to offer useful information without being asked for it because that's rude and she is hardly in a position to be rude.
He's not expecting her to talk he's hoping she'll think about things more clearly than she's currently doing.
Well, she's pretty scared, and she didn't fully process the thing about time being stopped, so she's still hoping that Rána will find her soon, hopefully before she messes up and asks for something, because then she will belong to other people, and she is really supposed to avoid belonging to other people, because even though she's mostly just a slave right now she's at least not a mistreated slave, and she's pretty sure things can still get significantly worse from there.
He walks over to Faith and whispers.
"I don't think I should be talking to her right now but I think someone needs to?"
"Well, here's the problem, right, she's convinced that she shouldn't talk to anyone until her Rána comes through the door, and I'm not sure she caught the thing about how he won't."
"Gotcha."
She grabs her popcorn and hops down from her barstool and heads over to the trembly lady with a baby.
"S' a cute kid. How old?"
I have no idea! I mean, I guess it means that there are fairies! - the one, Rána, he looks like me and - I think he enslaved her because she was thinking about it earlier -
No, I get you, yeah.
"Uh, so, I dunno fairyland, but whoever you left on the other side is gonna be a while, right, because time freezes when you're in here. So you could hang out here as long as you wanted with no consequences, they wouldn't even know."
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