"She would find this note pretty confusing, kiddo."

"If I say 'also Timothy has stopped lighting things on fire when he's mad and my other cousin gets along really well with his boyfriend he bought so they bought his sister and in a few months my parents will be done making necklaces and I can tell them all about it' would she kidnap me."

"Uh, yes."

"You don't buy mages you buy their contracts, the difference admittedly doesn't translate to material power to not lead their lives as they're told but it is a difference."

"There usually isn't money in boyfriend things at all."

"I know."

"Do you want help with a more reassuring note?"

"Yeah. Dunno what reassures humans."

"Well, she was worried that you weren't eating and sleeping. You could tell her what you had last time you ate and maybe include a picture of the house your family has out back and say you're home now and slept in it."

The revised note says,

Hi! Thank you for coming to check on me on Ganymede. I am home now but I might go back to Ganymede soon because there are people there who can't talk and it's not okay. Today I had pancakes and apple pie and I slept in my own bed and it was cozy. You seemed nice so I wanted to tell you that I was okay. Also Timothy's boyfriend Cam can talk now and that's really good.

Love,

Mingling

"That will probably reassure her just fine. Maybe less than if you didn't draw attention to the fact that your babysitter is dating a demon criminal but that did not seem like her focus."

"I think she was nice and wouldn't have kidnapped me even if you'd hugged me," he says, "but I can scratch that part. Also I should learn Greek because Timothy said I spoke it and now I need to eat pancakes and apple pie and then sleep in my bed so that part's true."

"I am sure Bar can do pancakes and apple pie."

Yes she can.

Then off he goes to bed.

Varda's free to go chat with a fairy who tortured lots of people to death, if some fairy will open the door for her and presuming she can nope the telekinesis.

Some fairy can be found to cooperate with the experiment and if that goes well with the door-opening.

And?

She can arrest moving objects in their tracks, but is warned that if she does that as an area effect and not a specific counter then the fairy's neighbors, if any, will be irritated.

She is mostly interested in whether she can prevent the fairy from just fleeing the conversation.

Yup.

"I'm going to leave a little attention here so I can ask questions about the fairy's whereabouts, if they have changed," she says, and then splits into two identical women. One goes through the door and off to find the fairy.

The fairy lives in a far-flung town up a mountain.

She can't move as fast as a fairy, but she can get pretty close. Up the mountain she goes.

His house is in the middle of a stack of houses, each with doors opening to midair.