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.
"I don't think so. He hasn't been - the others weren't like this until they were taken away from me."
"Let's maybe talk through whether there's something that can be done to make it go better."
"Honestly what I'm kind of thinking is that we should pack you lot off to Kansas with Karen and her family."
"It's where we were planning to send Karen and her family. Boring, vampire-free, no Wolfram and Hart, you can raise chickens. And horses. Do fairies have horses?"
"Well, you'll love horses. They're wonderful. I'll teach you to ride one."
"I don't care very much where we are if you and the children are there. Less, if we can return later."
"I want to wander. See the world. Run across the oceans. I don't want - a mortal house with - beds, and -"
"I think Karen's good for Cecelia and she'll be there. I think her kids might be good for Cecelia's kids, and they know about magic so they won't need to be completely in the dark. I think going to school will probably be good for them, even though schools suck, because there'll be - models of how one is cool and interesting and regarded well by their peers in this world, and it's not with threats of execution except in video games. I think video games probably beat being royalty, for most kids. I think all of you people have really concerning gender opinions and should be somewhere that has a little less of that, maybe, but probably California would be pushing my luck. I think Cecelia should go to church. I think if she tells the people at church that her husband decides everything there's half a chance they'll say something useful, though if I knew what I'd say it myself.
Slavery is illegal in Kansas.
I really do think you'll like the horses."
"I don't want to get stuck anywhere," she says, quietly. "I - also haven't been to a church in twelve years."
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