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.
"Cecelia did it for the kids. Coming with me. Because - because she didn't like what the human king was teaching them, she thought they'd go to Hell -"
She hugs herself.
"I just - didn't have any money to feed them. And I was worried someone else would come by and kill me and they'd end up - in foster care, or something. So I - it's a bad plan, right, working for Wolfram & Hart, once you sign your contract it's - that's it - but at least you don't starve - "
"If the people doing this are fetching - Imrainais and the people who sort of enslaved them - who do you think it'd fetch next -"
"I - I don't know, it's a big organization, it might be the guy who gave me the contract or the CEO of the company or - they said we weren't in danger, what kind of person does that - "
"It's possible there's something preventing us from doing each other violence? ...regrettably we can't test this because apparently if I punch him it'll break fairy rules."
"I didn't mean hard, I mean, like, enough to test if we need to fear violence here!"
"You could hit me? If I'm understanding the fairy debt rules right?"
"Yeah, I could. - you prefer this to a test that involves any of them, just because of the sex they are?"
"I think we should just be politely hanging around enjoying tea and let the fairy use the magic fairy debt powers. I don't see obvious prospects of winning a fight, here, but I've never heard of this fairy thing and I've heard of a lot of nonsense and maybe your kidnapper hasn't heard of it either."
" - it doesn't sound like a great plan but I would expect to be able to get a normal human who doesn't specifically know what I am? - especially if I'm dressed like one -"
"I, um - Wolfram & Hart's an interdimensional law firm, right, it's - very powerful and very big and a very bad idea to - give it reason to harm you - I'm really sorry for asking any of you to do anything at all - "
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