She wasn't expecting this either! The tear was between her and some very tasty-looking silverplums and now she is in the wrong universe and has no silverplums. She feels around behind her with one bare foot but doesn't feel the telltale temperature differential - not a gate she can just go through the other way.

"- hello."

"Hello to you too. What brings you here?"

"Accident. Where am I?"

"My house. Between Chequy Tower and the human lands."

"...the human lands?" Is the world not infested the whole of it over?

"I am not sure how much I need to back up and explain. You know what a human is?"

"I've heard of them."

"Well, there are places where they live by themselves and don't have to put up with us. And you can get there by crossing these woods."

"What kind are you?" He looks human but perhaps he's merely had a disfiguring accident.

"A fae but I do get asked that a lot." He shrugs self-consciously.

"You look a lot like a mortal, why is that?"

He hesitates slightly as he reminds himself that she is clearly lost and foreign and might have a very different idea of which questions are rude. "I started out as a changeling and I guess I didn't mind it. I don't know, why do you look like a plant?"

"I'm a leaflet."

"I've never heard of a leaflet."

"We're not especially common."

"Also I've never heard of a categorization scheme that 'leaflet' would fit comfortably into."

"...it's a kind of fairy? Like - glowgolds." He might be a glowgold, they do changelings.

"I have never heard of a glowgold, either. Is this... how you avoid names, where you're from?"

"No? We just use nicknames."

"...How do you make that work?"

"...I'm not sure what's confusing about it - what do people call you?"

"'My younger sister's friend who's a changeling', 'my coworker who likes soap operas', 'the guy who lives by the woods and grows cherry-plums'..."

"...and you can't decide that you're going to tell everyone to call you Cherryplum or what have you because..."

"Then my name would be Cherryplum, and I'd be telling people my name?"

"- I see. Well, I guess calling me 'the leaflet' will do."