"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."

Nayoki nods. "- Your tree?" 

"My kind of fairy start in trees."

"I wondered about your body!" Enaka/Sapphire says, sounding pleased with herself. "You seem half plant or something, it it fascinating." 

"What purpose does your tree serve now?" 

"I lived in it. And I can reshape it and nobody can get in if I don't want them to."

"Huh. I wonder if we could help you get a cutting of it sooner. Depending what forces he has staking it out."

Nayoki frowns, thoughtful. Leareth wanted the strange nonhuman not to know anything of his existence until they'd established a bit more of what was going on, here, but she's starting to feel like they're getting to that point. 

She takes a deep breath. "I work for someone who sensed the magic from your sudden arrival in his territory, which is why people quickly came to retrieve you. He was alarmed at first, most sudden incursions from elsewhere in our world would be hostile, but your landing here seems unrelated." She's not sure of that but it doesn't sound like something any of the gods Leareth knows of could have arranged. "Separately he is very curious about your magic and particularly about the indication that other worlds exist, and - I believe would be willing to trade substantial resources and aid in exchange for knowing more."

"I don't think it's wise for you guys to tangle with Thorn."

"Noted. Was he - even using your magic for anything to advance his goals? He did not seem to have left you very capable of doing things." 

"I was capable of more things when I went through the tear but doing that triggered some anti-escape contingencies. He has lots of sorcerers, lots of them better than me."

Sigh. "I do not like the sound of this person at all, but L–" no names, "but the person I work for will not go fight him if it is a stupid idea. What are sorcerers and what kinds of things can sorcery do?"