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.
"There was an evil god. Long before my time. He tortured unfathomable numbers of people and the Valar went to war with him and stopped him and imprisoned him."
"Yeah. So they'll do that. I kinda - want to make sure they get the message before I go to any parties."
"I think Elizabeth can improve on five days, if you come back with us. And it's not really a party, it's, like, a group of people from various worlds who are all hanging out in her demiplane while she attempts to figure out how to solve all of the problems on all of them. I guess."
"Well. She does. She's really new at this and likes talking things through with people who are sort of familiar, I think."
"Yes. He's also a Maia. They're a kind of god but - less than the Valar."
"He's not a very interventionist god. That's why he likes being a dog." He pats him. "And you're supposed to treat him as a dog."
"I'll take your word for it. I just, uh, don't really want to go around offending gods. Hopefully if he's trying to be a dog he doesn't take offense very easily."
"Not at all." Scritch scritch. "If you tried to kill me he'd try to stop you, I guess?"
"I am a couple thousand years old and I have never tried to kill anybody."
"Gosh. I think some of the other me's have, but I haven't. - well. Not personally. I probably shouldn't go saying things like that."
" - um, I've just helped some people do some bad things, and I'm not entirely sure what all of the bad things I've helped with were. But a lot of them were really bad. I'm trying not to do bad things right now."
" - okay. Does that take a lot of trying? I haven't really met people who had doing bad things as an option."
"Well, see, if you wanted to do a bad thing here, what would you even do?"
"I could, like, punch you in the face. Or come up with something mean to say. Or tell Hagan to shoot your dog, although since he's a god I assume it would not work out very well for us."
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