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.
"We didn't. You couldn't possibly have done anything differently. I - I should've reacted more aggressively the first time it happened, really, to make everyone take it more seriously - I'm sorry - it was selfish not to, really -"
"Just - don't fetch us until she's got really good magic that can make Cecelia not die. Or a lot of apology presents for my court, I guess that'd also be fine."
"Dunno. Depends how much they blame us and how badly they got hit, it's possible it doesn't go across dimensions or gets mitigated or something. - they might want to cut us out of the court. I don't think so, not when they know the cause and it wasn't us and it won't keep happening."
Nod.
"I think - if I were Cecelia I would be very worried, right now, about having to go back to where I was before, or somewhere just as bad. And I'd be looking for signs that that wasn't going to happen to me."
"Okay! I don't know all of how fairies work. Just - she's been through enough already, right? And you're gonna have to do some work to make her sure she's going to be safe with you.
"Long term I guess you should - probably have a long talk about what you guys think being married is going to mean, if you're doing that, and - talk about which things would really upset each of you if the other did them. And which things would make you feel unsafe. Since it seems like there's probably a bunch more stuff there that you two haven't happened to hit on yet."
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