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.
"I'm - worried about it. But - I want to be his wife. Properly his wife."
"I guess if you are trying to think of things you have different expectations about, a fairy whose society permits lots and lots of casual relations and a former slave not looking forward to it might have very different expectations in that space."
"Dunno what else. Parenting, maybe. Fairies sound like they'd be demanding parents."
"Yeah. I think that one's - slightly less urgent, it won't be everything changing at once. He's already helped with the little ones. The toddler likes him. We should talk about - discipline, and values, and things, but I'd think he could keep deferring to me about the complicated bits until he had a better sense of the children as people. And as humans in particular."
"This is true. And if they're as fairy as Connor and Matt are, then I think for lots of things I ought to defer to him. - I suppose we should talk about what effects that might have on the children, having two sets of rules for things, or which one set would be better for all of them."
"It's a bit of a shame that I can't rightly ask him to talk to any of you about it. You might be better at thinking of things than I am. But I don't think he'll want to talk to any of you much until you've spent much longer not breaking any of the rules."
"Will something even worse happen if someone gets counted as lying again?"
"It might be as bad or worse for us. It can't harm his court anymore, now that we're disentangled from them. Which is good, I think. They were terrified."
"He was worried I was holding it against him, how strongly they reacted. But I think it was really quite justified, if in many ways horrifying.
"We were going to have me tortured, before Elizabeth summoned us back. We're really very lucky she thought to check in."
"To clear the debt. The fairies expected we'd use sex. I don't think they realized they were being cruel. They just wanted to protect themselves."
"I didn't say it wasn't. But it could easily have brought even more suffering on their people if they'd allowed the debt to stand."
" - it is very reasonable to prefer to be tortured to having sex but it does make me think that you should talk with him about his expectations there."
"All right. Thank you again."
And she heads off towards the rainforest.
....well, now they have nothing to talk about. She'll just... stand here awkwardly.
View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
