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.
" - I don't want to go. I - I don't want to never see them again, maybe, but - I want to be with you."
"Well, yeah, but that wasn't - you, and - humans don't have feelings about magical debts, we don't have them. We just - we find someone who wants to take care of us, and look after us, and protect us, and raise children, and - who's all right being devoted to us for the rest of our lives, and we marry them and stay together, and - if we're very lucky we love them, and they love us back. So I don't - I'm confused about how you feel, and I guess about how I should feel in return, to make things work out, but I'm not - I haven't stopped wanting all of that - "
"I want to look after you, and protect you, and raise your children, and be devoted to you for the rest of your life."
"Mhmm."
She can tell him however much of the story of David and Goliath it takes to pay off a hug.
Who is still hanging out in her yurt reading a book.
" - hi! Can I help you?"
" - probably. I might have to travel to your world and I might have to know what your name is. I can make myself forget it when they do."
" - might be the same as Connor's - oh, it is the same as Connor's. - and the same as Alex's! Ooops."
"I have no idea if I can make you forget learning that. I guess I could try for a less specific memory editing spell."
"That'd be good. I don't want to be entangled with them. - with Connor's probably not a disaster."
"He hasn't lied as long as I've known him but that isn't very long by fairy standards."
She tries making him forget Alex and Connor's real names without knowing what those names are.
"Did that do anything?"
"I don't think so. You could make me forget my real name and then I can pick a new one that's not shared with Alex and Connor once my court has forgotten too?"
" - hm. I could do that but now Connor knows your name, see, and if it's also his name then it's going to be hard to make him forget it without - hm."
" - I will fix this, I just need to think about how. Worst case we can always rename Connor. I guess. Connor do you have feelings about your name."
" - share it with people in the sense of telling people or in the sense of having the same one as your alternates."
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