A second ago she was at work in the temple of Erastil in Sothis, which was actually going pretty okay, all things considered. Now she's in a grassy field with a couple fruit trees and a table and chairs and some notebooks and pens.
This is unexpected and requires a ton of power and is therefore sort of inherently terrifying. And she's alone, and defenseless, and she doesn't know where Verita is.
She mills around in steadily increasing amounts of distress until Hagan appears, just as suddenly.
"...are you not from Earth? I thought everyone was from Earth. Or Heaven. Or Hell."
"I know Heaven and I know Hell and I know a place called the elemental plane of Earth but the planet Imrainai and I are from is called Golarion and the plane is the material plane and I haven't been to any other ones except Axis."
" - so on some planes, gravity and the environment are such that enormous collections of rock pull together in spheres, and the spheres are so big that whole civilizations can spring up on them. Golarion is one such giant sphere.
Planes are - different places in the universe but not spatially contiguous? I'm sorry, I don't know a good way to - okay, so everywhere in the world you can get by walking or in a boat or flying, in principle, right, some places might take a really long time but they are all places connected to each other such that if you travelled for long enough you'd eventually be there?"
"So there are also some places that you cannot get to that way. Not even by flying straight up in the sky, which will get you to other planets eventually. You can only get to these - disconnected places - by magic, or by dying and getting sent there. Heaven's like that. Hell's like that. There are lots of other places like that too. We call them planes."
"Earth's a planet. The planet I'm from. And I guess where she's from. Maybe."
" - maybe you can read the note. Have you heard of the Latin alphabet?"
" - yeah, okay. Um. This says, 'Hi! I'm sorry to have dragged you away from whatever you were doing before. Please don't be alarmed. I didn't have another way to contact you. It'll take a few hours to finish gathering all of the people we wanted to talk to. I think I can return all of you to your home planes without any time having passed in them, so you shouldn't have any trouble on that front. You can probably guess what you have in common, but if you can't then I'll explain it to you when you're all here. We don't want anything in particular from you and you're not in danger, and once you're all together we'll put you back as soon as you want. We'd identify ourselves, except that it occurs to us that some of you may be full-blooded fairies, in which case that's a bad plan. We just think you're probably all super interesting and wanted to meet you. See you soon.'
"...it's signed 'Imrainai'."
She looks from Hagan to the fairy.
"...yeah, I don't know. This is really weird."
"You said Hagan had to tell you, at some point, that you weren't his slave."
" - huh.
There are some people trying to kill Imrainai's niece and we had to break into their house to escape with her. We took Imrainai too. She's - not - because we're not evil -" glare at the fairy -
"I don't know if it - means anything, I'm just - looking for commonalities - "
" - but he did sort of kidnap us. Kind of. Not without cooperation. Which I guess was true in your case, too."
"If I were to say you can run off to a different dimension with us if you wanna, would you say that there're kids-"
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