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.
"Mhmm. I dunno if it makes anything make any more sense. And, um -
"I don't know how much you've been following, about how the people from different stories are like each other? But - all of the Imrainais had never wanted to be with anyone until sometime after they met their Connor-person. And Korva's the only one who still doesn't. So she still kind of thinks there's something wrong with her. - I'm not sure I should be telling you that, but - I don't really want to be responsible for one of those sitcom plots where someone could have said something and they didn't and so everyone wanders around pointlessly confused for days. I guess."
"The one from hell didn't have a crush until after she'd killed her kid, so that's minimum nine months, right? And I don't think she ever told him."
"Anyway. I don't know if that helps or just makes everything weird. Sorry if it makes everything weird. - And don't tell everybody. It's just that she seemed sad and I don't think I can probably do anything about it, so I'm kind of hoping that something'll make more sense to you, now, I guess."
"I won't tell anyone anything. I can't - I haven't told her anything because the religion thing is actually a dealbreaker and it seems cruel to say 'you know, aside from that' -"
Elizabeth comes out of her yurt before Korva comes out of her house.
"Hey! Ready to try learning more things."
Eventually Korva comes out of her house. She heads for the food stores. She eats a muffin.
"Cool." New range of exercises designed to make it not obvious he doesn't want to hit them.
When she's thrown off lots of spells she can head over to Hagan for fighting practice.
"Could Connor learn, too, if he wanted to? We have a spell now that would probably make it safe, although we don't want to test it until it's been a while."
"Yeah, for sure! Also people who aren't Elizabeth should conceivably be trying for arcane magic, you're definitely all smart enough with the headbands and I suspect you were before that."
"I guess with the headbands it's probably worth trying. Take a long time, but it looks like we're going to be here for a while."
"Yeah, I guess not. And I guess it is possible that Mahdi doesn't have that many better things to do than teach us."
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