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.
When the translation effect turned off he sat in place for a while staring at the horizon.
Then he turned to Imrainai.
"Okay, I think we need to have a conversation or everything will be awkward forever."
"This seems possible.
"I'm - sorry for asking if you were okay in front of the fairy, I wasn't thinking about stuff."
"Nah, that's - I think that's on me. - are we safe from having to tell the truth now that they can't understand us?"
"Pff. Maybe you can just say you don't want to answer some questions. It's admittedly less fun than claiming to be a seagull."
"It's less - I dunno. 'I don't want to talk about that' is usually more than I want to say about something I don't want to talk about."
"Yeah. I can just - stop asking questions, I guess, if that's better - "
"Nah, wanna have the conversation. You already know - everything that matters - anyway."
"Oh. Do people have to have things they want to say to have conversations. Well, fuck."
"I think that's usually how it works. I wouldn't know, I mostly avoid having them with people who aren't eight. At least when I'm not stuck in abandoned temples."
"If he's - me - it was an honest mistake. A really bad one, but -
- it takes a lot of growing up to understand that other people aren't like you."
"I'm not holding your alternate selves against you. If I were gonna do that I think I would be - worrying about becoming totally nonfunctional from embarrassment over some of the other people here."
"You've got the teenager on her way to godhood - reminds me of Verita, honestly, and it's not so weird that you'd turn out like Verita if the world didn't beat it out of you? - and the one who got tortured a lot and the one who may have signed away her soul or possibly just her life and Cecelia - like, that's a discouraging run of alternates but it's hardly an embarrassing one. None of them really screwed anything up."
"I guess I am somewhat less annoyed about all of this if I imagine Verita doing it. I'm still kind of concerned about almost every opinion the teenage you has expressed, but, like, I guess I don't know exactly where he got them."
"I think he just - wants me to be happy and has literally never considered that people might have higher priorities than happiness."
"I feel like you're kind of the most reasonable non-me person on this plane right now. I'm not sure whether this says more about you or more about everyone else. - I guess I don't specifically have anything against the you who's a telepath."
"'s probably the shared cultural background or something and everyone else thinks they're the most reasonable."
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