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.
"I'm sure it's not, like, the objectively best way to spend money if you want to help as many people as possible or whatever."
"Obviously not. But I suppose if it's yours you can do what you like with it."
"Not let him have you. - dunno how that's best achieved. Murdering him has the side benefit of getting Cecelia freed but she wants her kids, can't do that if we don't have another way to get them."
He sits down on the grass well away from them. " - should've just left sooner - but they thought we could help -"
" 's okay. - I want to talk about whatever's bothering you because it's - distracting, having you sitting there wilting of something. Did someone hurt you?"
"You keep saying that - I'm not mad at you - they've decided I'm terrible because of some stuff about their world, I think, not your fault -"
She curls in a little around her baby.
"I was working with your father and - someone was looking for you. And. Happened to mention that you were sleeping with someone else. Is all."
"I'm sorry. I don't - I don't think that helped me understand at all, actually -"
"Oh. Uh. It's -
" - Hagan was saying that the only way to be good to a woman is to marry her, and - one can't always have that, obviously, but it's - I'd thought - I'd imagined that I - mattered more to you. Than I do. I think. It's - it's not your fault."
He's really really really tired of repeating "I'm so confused and that didn't explain anything".
"I don't think fairies can marry people. It's not - it's not about you not being important enough to marry. I just - I don't think I know how."
"I know. I don't expect you to. I'd just - forgotten that I wasn't - special."
She almost says 'don't lie' and then remembers that he can't and swallows it.
She starts crying again.
- aaaaahh?
Maybe he should - go ask the angry girl who looks like Cecelia for - help, or something -
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