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 guess. I don't really know any of them. They've been over there a while, though."
"He's super smart. So're most of my siblings, I was the disappointment of the family. Which is why I thought it was weird you wanted me particularly."
"He's, uh, her slave. Kind of. I guess she saved his life and he ended up in lots of fairy debt."
"Um - right, sorry, I told you about how fairies have this thing where if they do things for you then you end up indebted to them and become a fairy slave? Well, if you do things for them, then the reverse happens, and they end up indebted to you. So he's indebted to her. - his brother says he's happy. I don't, uh, really know the specifics."
"That's what I keep saying! So far everyone's mostly ignoring me when I do."
"Well I doubt I'm going to be more convincing than you but... that's dumb and upsetting!"
"You could talk to Matt? Or Connor? Or Elizabeth? They're not - I'm worried that I'm not explaining it right or not understanding it, or something, none of them seem to think it's a problem."
"Yeah. You should really get someone to put together a blessing for it but I'll be okay for a little while. Uh, did you know that slavery is bad."
"I'm not sure. I think there are more examples of fairy slavery that isn't at all bad for the fairy than human slavery that isn't at all bad for the human, and I think if a fairy is a slave and happy they're less likely to later realize they were wrong than a human who says they are a slave and happy."
"If the person running your demiplane has a slave, then I feel like people might think that she thinks slavery is okay in general and not just for fairies."
"She really doesn't. He could leave if he wanted to. The thing they're doing is okay, but it's okay mostly because it is not actually slavery. They should publicly call it something else, but Connor's stubborn about anything shaped like a PR consideration and she needs him right now and doesn't want to be renavigating their relationship on top of everything else that's gone crazy in her life. ...or they could just get a leather collar and say it's a kink thing but if I suggest this to either of them they will be absolutely miserable with embarrassment and possibly never talk to me again."
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