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.
"He's more trustworthy than you are. He's been able to hurt me for months, and he hasn't, except for - he mostly hasn't, and you're - a very confused person who claims to be from a different realm entirely, who doesn't know what a fairy is, and who I've only been talking to for the past ten minutes."
"...England, originally, and we didn't keep slaves there when I was a girl, but I'm sure they do now."
"Well I haven't been back to check. Everywhere else conquered by Scandinavia does, as far as I can tell."
"England in my world has also not been conquered by Scandinavia."
"'s why I wanted to get away. The Emperor kidnapped me and - he's a lot worse than the fairies."
"Things can get - really, really, really bad. But - even if the fairies are doing well in comparison it doesn't look like they're doing that well in absolute terms."
He is the worst person for this in every possible respect, really.
"If you wanted to get your fairy, you could hold the door open. Then time would pass in his world and he could find you."
Well maybe that was a bad call. But it's what she wants? That has to count for something?
She's gonna hold this door open until someone outside notices or someone in here prevents her from doing so. Can't take forever, whatever it is has opened itself into his bedroom, which he presumably has to come back to at some point.
It doesn't take too long at all. He's wearing visible clothes, fancier than usual; he walks up, looks at her, does a double-take at the door and the contents. "Hey. What's -
What the fuck are you doing, stop it right now."
"You are doing something. It is putting you in my debt. I don't know what it is. If you don't stop it immediately I will make you."
"No." He steps in front of Catherine and into the room. "Don't do it again. Who are you, and what is this place?"
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