Yeah, I really don't like it. I guess most fairies have no way of knowing and would never guess.

Yeah, I don't think it makes you much more vulnerable to fairies. More vulnerable to non-fairies, though, maybe.

We can't afford to have you getting misfortune when you're doing such high-stakes things. 

Yeah. You think I should take it? I have been really lax about asking you about taking spells, but - I wanna ask about this one.

I feel kind of scared of it but I guess I think you should take it.

Okay.

...I have to lie to take it. If it doesn't protect me, and protect me while in the process of learning it, it's going to be bad.

You could make my debt really really small? So we could barely tell?

Yeah. Okay. Should we ask Matt and your dad first, see if they want you to settle any debts first - 

Can't pay off my parentdebt. - I guess I could with magic from you.

Yeah, I think it'd be kind of trivial at this point. I'd give you some magic items to give your dad, you'd give them to him. I'm not saying you should, just, it's an option, if it'd be helpful.

I think I'm okay with the risk if we're very disentangled.

Okay. 

She goes and finds him. Erases almost all of the debt. Says "I am a pineapple." Unsays it.

"Okay. I think it's done. I wish there were a less risky way to run tests."

"I don't have a headache or anything, do you?"

"Not that I notice. I guess I ought to notice it even if you didn't, right, if it didn't protect me?"

"I think so. - let's maybe not test it, though."

"Yeah. Though it'd be really good to know for sure, it opens our options up a fair amount."

"Yeah. But - maybe once it's been longer since all the misfortune happened."

"Yeah. No rush. Should we tell the other fairies? Your dad and Matt and - I guess maybe the full fairy you?"

"- yeah, probably."

Well, Matt's easy to find. 

"Hey. I got a spell that keeps people entangled with me from incurring misfortune."

"Are you sure."

"We have not done extensive tests. The spellbook has never been wrong before, and I had to tell a lie to learn it. It didn't hurt me."

"Yikes. Okay. How entangled with you does someone have to be to be affected?"

"Doesn't say. The spellbook doesn't really explain very much ahead of time, it gives a one-sentence description and then we have to figure the rest out through experimentation. The full spell text is 'Misconduct by people entangled with you does not create misfortune.'"

"Huh. Okay. I guess with that information I would prefer to be very slightly entangled with you."