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.
Then she can go off and take a walk with her sister, and explain the fairy rules and everything that's happened.
And she and Hagan walk out of the forest.
"You think they'll be okay?"
"I don't know for sure but I feel like her sister might be better able to look out for her than us. Or differently able, at least."
"Well, I remembered where the house was. And I worry about her. Maybe less than before, but still."
"Hopefully the sister'll be good for her. Mine's good for me. I think."
"Yeah.
"She died when I was sixteen. I'd been living with her for a while before that. Didn't get along very well with our parents. For a while things were really good. And then she was gone, and - they weren't, really."
"I mean, she's back now. But - it might be important to our development as people, or something, if she always dies."
"Maybe. - though it could just be the kind of person she is? She sounds like the kind of person who might get herself killed pretty reliably."
"Yeah. Might've thrown off whatever mysterious force means your sister usually dies and my brother usually ends up in power and whatever-else repeats itself."
"Yeah. We should maybe sit down and see what other patterns repeat themselves, at some point, now that people are threatening to kill each other a little less."
"That sounds good.
I'm also curious if this is all of us, or just the first ones Elizabeth found, or what."
"Yeah. - possibly staying with Elizabeth and talking to her about her person-creating habits would've been smarter, oops."
"Yeah, she is being... really careless with it. But Cecelia's sister really needed to be brought somewhere better, too. Can't babysit all of the people at once, even if Elizabeth doesn't create any more."
"...well, I'm trying. But I should probably not assume that they couldn't make terrible decisions if they were really set on it. Don't wanna be surprised about it."
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