"I should hope so. Anyway, I've got a few shinies tucked away in my extradimensional storage space; if you want anything I don't have on me I can show you where I left the majority of the silver dragon's hoard I didn't take."

He beams.

"--Oh, fuck."

"What?"

"If I figure out plane shift and go back for the baby and optionally the dragon's hoard and you're not going to satisfy the curse after all there's a decent chance it wouldn't let me plane shift back."

"...that's a problem."

"Yes it is."

"You could - stay a while, try to figure something out - I might be able to duplicate the fountains and I could try to get them small enough to send with you," he says. "In case you can't come back."

"I don't mind staying a while--she'll be little for some time yet--but I've been trying to do something about this curse for over a thousand years to no avail."

"We don't have any minotaurs but I'm not the only rapist on the planet, I don't think it would be that much worse for the curse's purposes to have you here if it wasn't trying to keep you stuck on a mountain with the one man around who refuses to play its game..."

"Come to think of it I haven't actually tried leaving under my own power since you found out about the curse."

"I have no idea whether it still thinks it can outplay me."

"It's possible that it would continue to try to provoke you as long as I'm in your vicinity without forcing me to be in your vicinity."

"Maybe you can go another month without trouble that way!"

"Maybe."

"Mm?"

"Not really looking forward to what comes after that."

"...what, does it insist you catch up?"

"Not exactly but basically yeah. --It's as likely to enforce extra-horrible rape as extra quantity of rape."

"I genuinely can't tell if that face is 'your curse is awful' or 'I am imagining you undergoing rape that would kill a mortal woman and it is hot'."

"Oh, it was both."

"Why that man built lava golems with dicks I will never know. Because he is dead. Because that's what happens when you attack fifteenth-tier wizards with lava golem dicks."

He cracks up.

"I was picking volcanic ash out of places the sun don't shine for weeks."