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.
"Okay. That's good. I don't think I do. But they - they can trap you, and things, it's not just killing you - "
He nods seriously. "I - think I'm in less danger than you probably think, for a couple of reasons. And the fairy's a dick so I don't care what happens to him. But we should definitely -" he looks around unhappily - "there's nowhere to get the rest of you to safety -"
- and another person appears.
He looks like the fairy except he's wearing a jacket and snow pants and muddy boots, and holding a crossbow, and there's something else off. He's not quite human.
He raises the crossbow and spins to take them all in, bewildered. "What's this - Karen?"
He sets her down.
He looks around, more confused than ever.
" - I'm sorry. You - you look just like someone."
"You're not really understanding - if she does anything wrong, it will hurt her, it will hurt me, it will hurt Cecelia, it will hurt my whole family and everyone they're connected to, I don't want her but I will destroy hundreds of lives if I let her wander off."
"This just really sounds like a problem that goes away if you die."
Sigh. "All of us were brought here by an unknown power that may or may not have - something in common, with me and with her and with - Karen. We were suspecting that the other people were people who had at some point sort of kidnapped or enslaved that set of people and honestly I am still kind of expecting it, though you and the fairy have more - obvious similarities, than the fairy and Hagan did, so maybe there's something else. That one's the fairy. There are a bunch of annoying rules for interacting with him. If he answers questions or does things for you then you end up in his debt. If you're - entangled with him, was the word, you can't tell lies or swear falsely or make false accusations or attack him without causing some sort of harm to yourself, up to and including death.
"If he learns your true name then he says he has to take you home with him. He's already enslaved Cecelia and we are now arguing about what he's going to do with Karen."
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