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.
"Imrainai's birth name is Korva." Unsay. "My birth name is Karen." Unsay. "My sister's birth name is Azalea." Unsay.
When it's been a reasonable number of minutes she summons Matt back to the demiplane.
Honestly she hates coffee, but she's pretty sure this is what it was invented for. She takes it and drinks some and then goes back to work, checking her spellbook kind of obsessively to see whether anything new has appeared.
Nope.
Well then she'll keep doing this until it does.
Or until it seems like everybody might be getting hungry, whichever comes first.
They'll get hungry first.
She makes everybody salad and trail mix and mini corn dogs on little plates and big soft pretzels with cheese and little milkshakes and little glasses of water and juice.
She makes herself a milkshake and drinks more coffee. It occurs to her now that she could have made coffee herself and she just didn't think of this because she was too tired to remember.
She goes back to telling Connor names and unsaying them.
He goes back to sleep. He wakes up.
He prepares his spells and summons three fluffy hamsters because why the hell not. Anyone want to pet these fluffy hamsters?
She digs a little plastic folding chess set out of Elizabeth's pile of small objects from yesterday and plays herself. Sort of idly hopes that anyone else here knows how to play and will invite themselves over.
The hamsters vanish after a while and he doesn't super want to burn another spell so he goes back to being bored.
Oh good. They can play chess then. She's not actually very good but that is not really the point right now.
She snuggles Rana and feeds her baby. She sleeps. When she wakes up she waits a while and then gets a notebook from the table and tries drawing things.
And eventually:
Spell: Take names
You can make a person forget a name they know.
To learn this spell, say Uguweller. Kalarmu. Spimple. Unsay it.
She says the words. She unsays them.
She makes everyone in the demiplane except for Korva and her sister forget Korva's name.
She makes everyone in the demiplane except Hell Karen and Alex forget that Hell Karen's name is Karen.
She makes everyone in the demiplane except Valentine forget that Valentine's name is Karen.
She makes everyone in the demiplane except herself and Connor and Matt forget that her name is Karen.
She puts Connor's debt back. She hugs him.
You guys can talk. Fairies and half-fairies are advised to get to even with people who have trouble not lying.
Damnit, he definitely knew Imrainai's real name and liked knowing it and wasn't going to blurt it out. He can - ask Mahdi, probably. This is objectively not a very big deal.
"You're welcome. I'm gonna - go to sleep."
She's just going to tug Connor back to their tent and make some folded up blankets for them and snuggle him until she's not so tired she wants to cry anymore.
Hug. "Well, they can't hurt us anymore. We're going to have to be really careful, for a long time, lying's much worse when there's recently been a lot of it. But - maybe.
I want to go home."
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