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.
Well, I am sad about how you got tortured for, like, tens of thousands of years.
It wasn't that bad.
- aaaaaaaah.
She curls in on herself and whimpers.
Lightning darts out of the sky and strikes the little house where the fairy is sleeping with Cecelia and the baby. He awakens screaming in pain.
- she's in pain but not so much of it she can't think. She grabs the baby and evacuates the house.
She wakes up in pain. She thinks she might be even more tired than she was before she went to sleep. She runs out of the tent to see what's happened.
There are worms squirming under his skin and it feels like something seared a hole in his forehead.
Oh. Probably one of these idiots lied again.
This is probably going to kill them all but it's fascinating, he thinks, watching his skin bubble.
Sheeee's gonna go get Hagan, this seems like dramatics. She seems to be, like, the only person who is not having something horrible happen to them.
Ugh. The tree's on fire.
She does her hand sign. "May all in range of this spell be healed of all ills to mind and body." And now at least everything that a mass heal can take care of is taken care of.
She hoses down the tree with lots and lots of book-sized amounts of water. It destroys the cute little stick house.
LISTEN UP. No one is allowed to talk until I fix the entanglements. If you're wondering if I mean you, then yes, I do. If you have something VERY IMPORTANT to communicate then you are to RAISE YOUR HAND and I will mind meld with you.
Matt, I would like to send you home to go buy coffee. Nod if you are okay with doing this.
Thank you. You can talk if you need to talk to buy coffee.
She sends him home.
Connor, I'm going to temporarily erase your debt as a precautionary measure. I'm going to put it back later. Please don't panic about it.
She erases his debt.
She goes to get her spellbook. Checks that however much telepathy she did with Connor didn't give her another spell.
Nope.
That's honestly fair.
She grabs Connor and walks a ways away from everybody else, but sticks close enough that she can see anybody raising their hand. She opens her spellbook up on the grass to the page where the next spell is going to appear.
"Imrainai's birth name is Korva." Unsay. "My birth name is Karen." Unsay. "Valentine's birth name is Karen." Unsay. "The me from Hell's birth name is Karen." Unsay.
Dragged himself out of the wreckage. Healed by the heal spell, so he's not injured or anything. He sees her and walks over and clings.
"Should've been more insistent -"
Well he's awake now so he's just going to - sit here in this really depressing mess?
Sssshh. Don't talk. I'm going to try to stop listening to you but I'm not angry, it's just that you absolutely mustn't talk.
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