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.
"They want me to not keep you in debt. I can keep you, that's fine, just - the barest bit entangled, not as much as we are now."
Nod. "But you've got lots more stories - and all this food, you won't need the court's for a while -"
Nodnod.
"I'm - a little scared of telling stories right now, but - I suppose it hasn't actually caused any problems. And I don't - I can't see how much debt I'm in."
"It's - it's a lot but that's fine all by itself, the problem is it goes up, because the food's so expensive here -"
"Want to - want to ask you what you're thinking about but I don't want you to say things that might come out wrong -"
"I'm worried that - I won't be able to pay it quickly enough with just stories, and - they're going to want you to ask for something worse."
"'m not going to force you to do anything. We can decide together and if you'd rather leave the court in the middle of the night we can do that."
Hug. Cling.
"You - could talk about it more. I - is the toddler still with your father, is he all right - "
"Yeah. He's okay. They gave him a sticky candy that makes it hard to talk. My parents did that to me, too, at that age, I liked it a lot."
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