"Theoretically," says Promise.

"She was not going to hurt you anyway, she is a Healer. ...You refused treatment, earlier, is that because Healing magic in your world does not work very well or something? I thought maybe you had Healed yourself before, but also that the injuries might be part of the orders I rescinded somehow." 

"Orders cannot themselves spontaneously cause injuries. Healing sorcery works fine and is what I did. She said she'd have to touch me."

"Healing in our world works by Seeing what is wrong in the body and then Healers can set it right, I think skilled Healers can do it without touch but it makes it much harder. - Does your magic interact with being touched in some way, or is that purely a preference you have?" 

"You already asked about that. I just don't want anyone to touch me."

Nayoki lifts her hands. "Fair enough. Anyway. You were previously kept prisoner by someone in Fairyland, who I assume was your master there and - had you under all of those horrible orders to not move and such?" 

"Yeah."

"Is that - normal, there?" 

"Not the details."

"But you think he cannot find you here, right." 

"Right."

"What kind of magic did you use to come here?" 

"I think it was a tear. They're sort of like gates but disappear once someone's gone through one. If he looks for me at all he'll expect me to have gone to the mortal world, which is understood to have mortals, like you, but no magic last I heard."

"Huh. Is that a kind of magic someone else casts, or a natural phenomenon?" 

"I'm not sure. I don't know how to make a tear."

Nayoki nods. She sits back and tries to think over what the right questions even are to ask, here. What other magic the woman possesses, of course, but...she's missing some steps here... 

"...Um, do people in your world usually go by pet names or something, if names have power like that? Is there something I should call you?" 

"We use nicknames, yes. I'm Promise."

"Promise." Nayoki smiles at her. "You can call me, hmm. Sunspring." It's the name of her hometown, in the Haighlei tongue. 

"Okay, Sunspring." She looks at Enaka.

"Oh, should I have a nickname too even though you know my actual one?" 

"It's customary. I'm not going to make you."

"Umm, sure, you can call me Sapphire then." 

"Nice to meet you."

Nayoki waits for introductions to be complete and then sits back in her chair. "I want to ask you more questions about your magic - and tell you about ours - because I think we are still missing a lot here and I do not want to trip over it. But - what do you want, from here? I am guessing you do not care to go back to Fairyland, given..." Vague hand gesture. "Do you need some time to rest and get settled? You just got out of a bad situation, it sounds like." 

"Uh, I might want to go back to Fairyland. Where I can... eat the food without someone having to hand-feed me. Just, I'd go to another continent, wait a few hundred years till he won't be staking out my tree any more, go get a cutting of it."