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 have no complaints about him. I had one earlier today, but it was a misunderstanding and he's rectified it now."
"English is my native language, but I can't write it. If you want writing I'm more competent with Norwegian than with Quenya."
She can hand her baby to Rana and grab a notebook and write an alphabet and and anything else Hagan's father wants, then.
And a little bit later the perky teenage Imrainai comes back with Connor's dad.
The two of them seem delighted to meet. Was she gonna get rid of the translation effect so they can talk?
" - I mean, I can do that, but I understand that there's a torture dimension somewhere that I should probably be trying to do something about? And I was also wondering if you guys had any ideas about that. Since you are adults and one of you is actually from the world that knows stuff about the torture dimension."
The fairy just looks confused.
The Osirian says “Right. Are you confident you can conquer Hell?”
"No. But I can do a lot of things that I wouldn't have expected to be able to do, and I want to aim really high with my abilities, so that if I do have an ultimate power limit of some kind I eventually find out where it is. I think what I need to know is what sort of powers I would have to have to destroy Asmodeus and fix Hell, and then I can figure out how to develop those powers."
“I would assume you’d need to be a god but I don’t know that for sure and it wouldn’t be sufficient.”
“Not really, no. Most accounts of how gods died aren’t very detailed and in some cases it’s a great mystery. You probably want to ask Abadar.”
"Okay, well, I can't kidnap Abadar right now because I don't think I know any alternate versions of him. Also that sounds like it might get us all killed. Thanks anyway. Anything else you want to cover before I turn off translation?"
“You can probably get the pharaoh, and the pharaoh can talk with Abadar when he wants to.”
"...if the pharaoh is one of your sons I maybe can, but I am concerned that this might be interpreted as an act of war or something."
"Okay, but when I took Hagan I didn't know he was a prince or anything. I guess I can do it if you think it's a good idea and stuff. I'm not gonna do it if you don't."
“I think you will need him eventually if you want to pull this off. If you want to wait, though, presumably at some point Osirion will try to get us back and you’ll want to know what you mean to say to them by then.”
“- ah. All right. That’s reassuring, with respect to your ability to kill Asmodeus. - you do know that killing him won’t make Hell a nice place, not all by itself?”
"Yeah, that occurred to me sometime after I decided to do it. But I figure I can't start the cleanup until he isn't around to stop me anymore."
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