Cam nods. "- do you think faeries can't get you pregnant, or that maybe you haven't been eating enough to get pregnant, or are they being careful on their end, or?"

"Can't get pregnant fast. - and if you are, you lose the baby, which is - they told me about that in advance, it wasn't an accident or anything." She kind of cringes against the side of the cage.

"- having to make things in midair really limits my options here, but I can give you some little things where if you swallow one as soon as you wake up or first thing before you go to sleep, every time, they will prevent you from getting pregnant in the first place - I'm just not sure they'd let you hold on to them and they stop working if you stop taking them -"

"It's been more than a year that I've been here. I think they're right that you can't get pregnant when you're sped up like them, and I know they're right that if you speed up when you're already pregnant you lose the baby.

That's - neat, though."

"It's pretty keen, yeah. I don't know, if they decide to let you go or it turns out I can buy you free with popcorn or something maybe stop and ask me for some of those before you go."

Sad laugh. "Okay."

"And a sack of gold. Or whatever."

"A fancy dress. Men'll pay more if you have a fancy dress. Gold they'll just think I stole it."

"- if that's what you want. I don't know a lot about current fashion though."

"I can tell you. If it ever comes up."

Nod nod. "I don't know a ton about your options if you get loose, I'm just assuming it's better than being a faery prisoner even if I'm available to feed you."

"I hadn't really thought about whether it would be or not because it didn't matter much but I think if there was a way not to get pregnant then it would be. I could have friends, and a place of my own, and it wouldn't be dark for months at a time."

"If I can buy you out with popcorn at all maybe I can get enough leeway or someone who can read the circle or something to figure out how to give you a more stable option than the pills - if you lose them or they get wet or anything that's it, but there's stuff you can have as an implant that just hangs out indefinitely."

"It's a nice idea but I would be pretty surprised if they liked popcorn more than a slave. I guess I could act like I was sick and close to dying anyway."

"Yeah, I have no idea what exchange rate I'm working with here."

"Faeries don't make a lot of sense."

"And they seem completely oblivious to it, too!"

"I think to them we're making lots of obvious missteps which give them more latitude, and that's funny, and not really something to be prevented. I think they could explain themselves if they wanted to."

"I kind of don't think that because they could have warned me not to give my name when I asked if there were rules I should know about. They didn't seem pleased to have it."

"Huh. Maybe they're just stupid."

"That's my theory. I mean, perhaps they vary."

"Would it be any better if they gave us to smart ones?"

"Depends how evil they are."

She nods and stares at the blanket.

"I can make you actual clothes, I just couldn't make them on you so I went with the blanket," he mentions.