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 figure you are not from a world where people kidnapping you almost certainly mean to kill you or worse."
"I do not mean to kill you or worse. I wanted to gain access to alternate realities and I'm only currently able to contact them through alternate versions of myself or someone else who's willing to cooperate with the spellcasting process. I - can't fix the everybody being stuck on the fairy thing right now, but I have reason to believe that I'll probably be able to fix it within a week or so, now that I know it needs doing."
"I have! Super don't have it. I was going for that or gate, but I got this, and then I got a bunch of unrelated spells, and I am working with what I have."
"Yeah, probably. But this is the only one I can do. My limitations aren't precisely related to power."
"So who goes with who - he's hers, of course -' gesturing at Alex and the Karen rescued from Hell - "and he's hers -" gesturing at Cecelia and the fairy - "and he's ...yours?" he asks Korva, "or yours," of the other Karen.
"Yeah, I thought there was one in your world, but then there wasn't. Sorry. You okay? Other than being stuck to the fairy, I really do think we can fix that."
"Yeah. Uh. I mean, Wolfram & Hart might be trying to recover me and I need to go back to being stuck there for my niece and nephew, but - besides that, I guess."
"We miiight be able to pull them to my world too, if you'd want that? Like, I do have a niece and nephew, if I can get them to sit still for the casting?"
"....the kind that uses magic? I'm sorry, I dunno what categorization scheme you're using - "
"What is the source of your powers? Do you have to decide at the start of the day what things you want to be able to do that day, or can you decide at any time? What are some examples of things you can do?"
"I have a spellbook, but I'm not a hundred percent sure whether it gives me my powers or has some other kind of relationship to them. I can cast any of my spells at any time. I can mindread people, I can do telepathy, I can turn invisible, I can fly, I can do this thing, I can cast mass heal, I can telekinetically shelve books..."
"Mass heal translates as a specific spell I know, and so do a couple others of those, and then some I don't know. They were all in the spellbook?"
"Yep. Uh, not originally. I think the spellbook responds to what I'm doing and gives me the tools to accomplish it more effectively, or better, or do things that otherwise appear to be aligned with my priorities. And then I get new spells based on that."
"I am not currently capable of visiting planes besides my original one and this one. It's possible this little stunt might change that? But we'll have to see. Right now I can only pull people here and send them back, or take them with me to where I'm from."
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