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 think so. I don't know him very well, but I think he's really very sensible. - anyway, I'm not sure whether that helps, but that's what I have."
"Mhmm. - I think perhaps that I should get back to Rana and my children, now. But I hope it works out."
"Oooh. That looks nice.
"Sister wants to stay with the other humans, for now. And there was some discussion of calling in her daughter to learn more about Scandinavia's military and what they're likely to do if they gain access to other planes."
"If Elizabeth thinks she can fight an evil god, shouldn't she be able to take the Emperor?"
"I'm not actually sure whether that's easier, the Emperor doesn't die if you kill him. But I think Hagan was mostly wondering whether it might be better to get the Emperor to agree to hand my children over, rather than simply stealing them, and I imagine that takes a little more finesse."
"Huh. I guess that makes sense if he sees how to do it. Then he won't be dead, though."
"Seems kinda unfortunate, him having hurt you and not even being dead about it."
"I don't particularly think that everyone who hurts me should die. But - he will go right on hurting other people, if nobody does anything about it. And he's hurting so many people."
"Well maybe you should ask them if they have a plan about that, if they're so clever."
"Yeah. I should talk to them more about it, before they decide on anything in particular."
"I also talked to Imrainai about something, and it made me think about - I suppose I've been worrying that you resented being asked to stay here. Instead of working things out with your court, or heading north again right away."
"I don't really like these people very much but we can't head north in the middle of the night."
"Yeah. It's not - I know you're unhappy here. I guess I was just - uncertain about whether you were also unhappy with me. - and I don't mean you shouldn't be, just - it seems better to know."
"...because I wanted to stay here until more things had been worked out, and not interact with your court any more than absolutely necessary, given what happened? I suppose?"
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