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.
Sure, he'll go for fancy magic armor to go with the rest of his fancy magic stuff.
She flies some armor over to Cecelia and Rana. She also flies some over to fairydad and Hagan's dad, although she does not particularly expect them to stop talking long enough to put it on.
When everybody who's going to put on armor looks ready, she focuses on summoning the Fazil and Mahdi that Hagan knows.
"That is one of the things I can explain. Can we- go a bit away from everyone -"
They do that. There is a long conversation with occasional yelps of surprise or raised voices or laughter.
Well, hopefully that'll work out okay.
"...ugh, now I don't know what I should be doing again."
She counts off on her fingers. "Defeat Asmodeus. Probably I should wait for Hagan to try again at getting combat magic. Find a safe place to put resurrected people. Find a safe place to put Cecelia and Valentine's kids. Immortality and invulnerability; wearing armor should help with that but it's probably not enough."
He comes back with his friends. "We were thinking probably the best way for you to get spell resistance is to get spells cast on you and have to throw them off."
"Well we are happy to help you practice if you want. Mahdi doesn't have the best spells prepared for it today but he has some and he can prepare more useful ones tomorrow."
"Sure! I just might need some handholding. Did you tell them the fairy rules - "
"Yep. We're used to weird stuff, I don't expect them to have fairy-related problems. But I've emphasized how important it is."
"Okay, good. As long as you're unentangled with them I think nothing horrible will happen, but it'd be really bad if anything else happened to Cecelia."
"As long as everybody understands that. So, uh, how do I throw off spells - ?"
"You've got the crown, right, that should help. Usually when someone is practicing this I'd suggest they get Owl's Wisdom cast and then pay attention to what it's changing. One is - surer of your own thoughts, you can trace more of them to their origins, you notice more quickly if one of them is rooted oddly or inconsistent with another one -"
"That's approximately the skill you use to ignore a spell. Even something like Hold Person, which is probably what we'll practice with and which people think of as causing paralysis - it's affecting your mind, it's affecting how you send instructions to your body to move. You resist it by being very sure of your own will and of your ability to use your thoughts to do the things they're supposed to do."
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