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.
She flops on the grass again.
"Why are the most powerful versions of any of us teenagers who act like they have only very briefly been introduced to the concept of common sense."
"At least they're getting his dad? Maybe he has a less tenuous relationship with common sense."
"I mean I dunno how closely people match but if it were my father he would do diplomacy for about three minutes and then demand to know all of the languages spoken on our planes and spend the next three weeks learning a bunch of them and asking an endless flurry of oddly specific questions about how turns of phrase are used."
"My brother is well-supplied with common sense but Imrainai's gonna hate him."
"Which one of us, no one seems to be listening to me. Except the fairy. Good job with that, fairy."
"I guess I have no idea if your perky teenage alternative personality will dislike him. Maybe it'll just be you and Cecelia."
"The pharaoh - lives in a very fancy beautiful palace where nothing matters and is surrounded by pretty women to get a lot of children by and this just seems sufficient for you to want him dead, at this point, considering."
" - I don't see that I should want him dead, necessarily. I probably won't want to talk to him."
"Cecelia met mine and didn't slip up at all. Not that there's any reason to make her do it again, of course."
She hugs Rana. "I didn't like it. I understand that it was necessary."
"Yeah, I bet. I'm sorry. 's gonna suck for me, too, for whatever that's worth, but - I think they need to talk to some people who have actually ever tried to do things in our world with military force - and it might actually be a good idea for them to talk to Abadar - and that means -" Sigh.
" - I mean, Cecelia doesn't have to be hanging out right over here if they grab more people, does she?"
"Nah. You all can go be in a house somewhere away from all the nonsense."
"I always really hate it when I'm on some adventure and then it turns out to be the kinda thing that's best handed over to the authorities. You just ...stand there knowing they think you're stupid."
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