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.
"It's fine. I think I'm just worrying about random details a lot, here, since there's nothing to...do."
"That makes sense. Maybe we should talk to Queen Elizabeth about the lack of things to do here. Tommorrow. ...however tomorrows work with no sunsets."
"It's tomorrow once the casters have their spells back, of course."
"Yeah."
She heads over to ask Valentine if she's okay sharing a house with her and her sister.
She's erecting houses, after determining people's house specifications.
When she's done, she checks her spellbook again.
Spell: Fortunate
Misconduct by people entangled with you does not create misfortune.
To learn this spell, say to someone entangled with you, "I am a pineapple." Unsay it.
It says 'misconduct by people entangled with you does not create misfortune'.
Right? I feel kind of weird trusting it but, like, the spellbook's never failed that way before - it does only say people entangled with me, not me, so I feel like I should still scrupulously avoid metaphors, but it's really neat. Do you know if the naive reading of those words means that it applies to anyone entangled with you as long as you're entangled with me, as far as I know I can only be directly entangled with fairies -
Yeah. Don't really feel comfortable - relying on it - even though the spellbook's usually pretty good.
Yeah. It's - really high stakes if we misjudge how it works.
You could learn to fight, if you wanted. If it was right.
Yeah. I guess if I was immune to misfortune I could just - do whatever I wanted.
Well, depends on who objects to it, right? It means that you can't use fairy debt to protect yourself, anymore, since anyone who attacks you incurs debt, but then they're entangled with you, so it doesn't produce misfortune if they do it again.
I guess in an emergency I could disentangle us again? But I don't really want to get in the habit of doing that.
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