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.
“We were thinking about how to get your kids without, uh, just kidnapping them. Do you think the emperor could be persuaded to agree to whatever arrangement you want?”
"No.
"...I suppose it might be different now that so many other very powerful people are around. You're planning to make contact with Scandinavia?"
"Not until you're ready. But once you are, I think we should do that rather than just stealing them, yeah."
"I'd worry about Scandinavia adding more lands to the list of places they're interested in conquering."
"Send soldiers. Of course right now they use ships to get them there, but right now I have no reason to believe that they know that other planes exist."
"Do you know anything about the soldiers? Do you know if they have magic users, do you know if they have air units..."
"I don't know to what extent they use magic in warfare. I'm - not sure what air units are. I wasn't normally permitted to leave the palace."
Nod. "Do you think your fairy would know anything about this? Or anyone else we could get?"
".....My niece would know something, although she's only a child, but I don't know whether she'd cooperate. Almost anyone else who knows anything about the military almost definitely won't."
"Will you let us know when it's a good time? There's no hurry, because of the pausing."
She's still got a pen and a notebook but now she's sort of angrily doodling under her notes.
None of his business.
- he could ask Matt for interpretation help.
He finds Matt to do that.
"Hey."
"Yeah. I - guess I said something that was too direct? And she got very cold and now she's mad and - maybe this doesn't actually require a social supergenius to figure out.
Why doesn't she like me?"
"I didn't witness this. I've barely spoken to her. My interpretation of what you said is that she would like your relationship to continue on being the way it currently is. And then you abruptly left, which is probably not great for communicating that she can have that."
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