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.
It is also admittedly kind of relevant that whoever she was with before left her with a lot of trauma and five kids. I think her standards might be underground.
I think I'm just - not entirely sure what to do about this until she learns English. If she knew English she could at least be exposed to things that were, like, not this.
I'm hoping that - having her needs provided for not by him, having the kids doing okay, will make it seem more like she has alternatives. Even before she knows English.
So he gets cheese pizza and pepperoni pizza and sausage pizza and pineapple pizza. Since they're going to go to school this fall and they'll need to have opinions about pineapple pizza.
The kids are pretty enthusiastic about all kinds of pizza! Except the Connors, they object to pineapple pizza.
That's valid.
"I noticed earlier that you spoke Quenya," he says to Cecelia when her kids seem occupied with pizza.
"It's my native language. I'm really confused that fairies speak it."
"You speak like he did, yeah. Regrettably my homeland is not at all a suitable place for all of you to land, or we could've spared you learning another language."
"It's a horrible place, I'm not allowed there, you're not allowed there, and humans aren't allowed there."
"Some humans tried to invade thirty-four thousand years ago and they're still really mad about it."
"I think I have a lot of experience landing places where I can't talk to anyone."
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