What're you supposed to do? Not be sad?

I dunno? Be grown up and sensible and make fewer mistakes and not act like a victim when I do?

Well I think you're working very hard and it and it's okay to be sad when it doesn't work.

Is Cecelia going to be okay?

I don't know. Might depend on whether the fairy is. Which - could take a long time to know anything about.

It'd be better if he was sped up. Relative to her. So he can have a few years without her waiting a few years.

That makes sense. Uh. I'm not immediately sure how to do that but it could be I'm not very good at thinking right now - I guess we just have to get him fast, if he isn't, and then make sure the demiplane keeps running on slow time, but I don't know how to speed him up if he isn't already - 

He probably is? If he's not I dunno how to do it either.

You didn't permanently speed up the first time you went to a fairy circle? But maybe there's weirdness around you being half-fairy or being entangled with a bunch of slow people? We both sped up when we got entangled with fast fairies. I guess. I'm also not immediately sure how to check on him without mindreading him. I guess maybe a crystal ball would work.

Probably.

She blasts all of her zombies and conjures a crystal ball and tries to look through it to see if she can see Rana.

Nope.

She tries like five more times with five different crystal balls.

Eventually she can get some trees. He's not visible in the picture.

I think he's fast. I'm getting a scry with no visible person in it.

That's good, then.

Yeah.

How long do you figure we should leave him alone for? Keeping in mind that he doesn't have any way to contact us.

I don't really know. 

I guess that's valid.

I don't even know if he wants - I don't know what he wants at all, really.

I don't think he would've wanted to abandon her. But that doesn't - necessarily mean he'll come back.

Yeah.

Is she gonna be okay if he doesn't? Is she going to want him back if he does?

I'm pretty sure she'll want him back if he wants her back on any kind of remotely reasonable timetable. And possibly want him back even on unreasonable timetables. 

I don't know if she's gonna be okay. Probably eventually? She's just - been through a lot.

Yeah.

M'scared of screwing up again. Scared of screwing up in ways that get other people hurt. Or you hurt.

Well, it's okay if you hurt me, I wouldn't leave.