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.
"Was gonna make it nice for you all the time, before I learned you didn't like it."
He can kiss more places in order to help check whether it is nice. Like her jaw! And her ear! And her neck!
Oooh! Very nice! That's even better than nice. In that case she should have lots of that. Also then she'll be back in his debt and he'll feel better about everything.
Being back in his debt sounds pretty okay. Especially if he's going to do this. Gosh.
"It's important to me. The debt. It means - people look at us and they won't know about the marriage, they wouldn't understand it if they did, but they'll know that you are mine and I give you lots of things and take good care of you -"
"And I like - if I'm not sure about a situation I'm never thinking 'well how do I work around whatever Cecelia's going to do', because, you're not, you're going to listen - I don't mind you getting to choose lots of things but it's important to me to know that if I do have to tell you to do something you'll do it if you can -"
"Mhmm. And I can, you know, without hurting myself, because - you don't tell me I have to do things unless they're important. So - I can know that it's important, every time."
She spends the night - the time that people decide to sleep, anyway - in a little house with Imrainai and her sister. It's okay. They don't talk much. They still don't have plumbing, so they're still using chamber pots. Nobody breaks into the house and stabs her.
She's up six hours later by the pile of books again, sifting through volumes for more texts that she's about halfway to being able to read.
He wanders the whole perimeter of the demiplane. Sees her, waves. Sees her again, comes over. Not very close.
"- hi?"
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