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.
"It'd be tough to find food. ...we could leave the kids, maybe? I think they'd feed them, and then I am pretty sure I could keep you fed even in the dark."
"Baby still needs milk. It would only be the toddler. And - he can't pay anything back, and - he's very quiet but I can't be confident that he won't at some point tell a lie, he's so small - "
"The things my family's doing with me to cut down my debt to them don't do any lasting damage. Just hurts. I - I would be really surprised if that was dangerous for humans? I don't know for sure. Could be twice as gentle for twice as long and that'd do, I'd think."
"Crush my fingers, hit me with a flexible stick, rub irritants in my eyes? - fairies aren't like humans, Cecelia, it doesn't matter to me -"
She flinches.
" - I don't think, if you crush a human's fingers, that they - heal very reliably. I don't know whether the other things do."
"You - traditionally one stands in front of one's community and family and church and pledges to love, honor, and remain faithful to the other as long as both of them live. Obviously this is - probably ill advised, if one is a fairy."
"I could get all of the things for the rest of the winter and give them to you and then have my brother kill me. And then you wouldn't be entangled and the court would be safe and so would you."
"Meant to keep you safe and not hurt you. Said I would. I don't see why - it solves the problem -"
She can't think well enough to reliably vet what she says, so she doesn't say anything. She hugs him instead.
"There're stupider things to die for. And your magic friend might fetch me someday anyway, if you wanted."
"She said she didn't know where fairies went.
"They say Homer was blind. If the eye irritants are - worse for humans than for fairies. I don't expect they'd kill me. I did want to see the world, but - I guess I'd still be a poet - "
"I don't know that it would happen. I don't know what's going to happen. Just - rather not be unpleasantly surprised - "
"I don't know that I could even keep us alive without you. If it were all of the children at once it would be even harder."
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