It's a little surprising; normally she is permitted to enter random forests of her own will. But not that much.
She starts walking, looking for whatever inane plot she will be required to participate in/thwart this time.
Eventually she sees a cottage. She makes for that--random houses in the woods are prime weird shit locales.
She knocks on the door. "Excuse me! I don't know what's going on here but I'd rather get it over with sooner rather than later so I can go home!"
Promise scrunches her eyes shut. "I need to find Little Bird. Do you know her? Please just answer yes or no."
"That was not a yes or n- Just don't tell me anyone's real name. Please take me to Little Bird."
"Some of Thorn's vassals found me. I couldn't outfly them for long, but if I can hide here for a few weeks - even a few days - they didn't see me come through here, shouldn't be able to find the gate, if they do they won't be able to use sorcery so as long as I can stay far enough away and nobody tells them their names - if I can just stay long enough that they lose track of me I can start over somewhere farther away."
"I can hide somewhere. Or put out my eardrums - well, you could, one of Thorn's people ordered me not to do it myself before I got away, but I don't have to stop you. I can fix them when I get home. I don't want to envassal anyone. I just need somewhere to hide and you can feed me without making anything worse."
"Um, you can hide out in my room for the duration if you want. No one but me and my roommate will come in without an invitation and she'll be fine not calling me by name and I can refrain from calling her by name and that sounds like more fun than putting out your own eardrums. Also, if you've acquired orders you don't want since last we met, I rescind them."
"My name's not Frederick."
"I know. This kind of fairy gets some kind of dominance over you if they learn your true name."
"Oookay, then. I don't think we've actually been introduced, how did you know my name wasn't Frederick?"
"The embarrassing birthday display your friends put up in the dining hall last month."
"Oh."
Promise steps into the room. Her wings roll up behind her and she finds a corner to sit in, tucked out of the way.
"All the kinds of fairies I've ever heard of. Do you have kinds that don't have that property here?"
"Weird. Maybe there are some fairies who moved to the mortal world permanently and... lost it? Maybe it takes a long time to stop working unlike sorcery but still does... or there are breeders here and if they're born here they have mortal name properties and their ancestors left them...?"
"Fairies that breed, instead of just starting. I have no idea how they'd have lost the name thing if they came from Fairyland. Maybe they were pretending, to be polite."
"Well, they could also have been under orders not to use it. And plenty of fairies are breeders, maybe even most of them, but not most kinds. I'm not a breeder."