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 suppose I can acknowledge that there exist situations that are nice for other people."
"Sort of. - honestly if I take that mindset seriously this experience has not made me incredibly optimistic about my likely life paths."
" - some of you guys are very impressive but none of you guys are very happy? Maybe the kidnapper one is happy."
"I think I'm mostly happy? I just had a really really bad day. And am sort of having a bad long night at court. But - I think when the sun comes again it'll be okay, probably?"
"Technically the Hell one seems pretty happy about lots of stuff. Mostly apples."
"I don't think that counts. Like, if someone is hoping to live a happy life, they're not hoping to be deprived of apples for a thousand years so they can be super into them again."
"It does seem kind of possible that your current standards are underground. Like, maybe the fairy also happens to be great for you, but - things were pretty bad before, right?"
"Being a fairy's pretty great, though. You get to see the world and - eat the nectar out of flowers and sleep in the tops of trees and run across the water and tell stories in lots of courts and see the whole world and stuff."
"If you're entangled with fairies then you move very fast, too fast for normal humans to see. And you can follow the paths through fairyland and become very small and explore the insides of flowers."
And two more people appear. One of them looks like the Karens, and the other one looks like the fairy, but younger.
The girl counts up the people. "I think that's all of them. - annnd I'm entangled with that guy now, okay. Hi. Are you guys all okay?"
"No one's dead, various people are stuck on the fairy. Did you, uh, know that kidnapping is wrong?"
"I - agree that this is probably very concerning. I did leave a note! And you can go home whenever you want, now, although I admit I would be pretty disappointed if you decided to leave right now immediately without me getting to talk to you at all. But if you want to you can! Really! I, uh, didn't have any other spells to contact you guys."
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