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Catherine goes to fairyland and meets some Feanorians
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"Not exactly."

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"Uh. Well. Normally the way to get disentangled is to settle your debts with the people you're indebted to, or who are indebted to you."

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"Ah. That might be sort of complicated."

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"Frankly it sounds like they want you dead."

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"Yeah, I was getting that sense. Any other ways to leave, I don't know that I'm terribly eager to interact with them again."

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"Who was this, did you get a court name?"

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"I don't believe I did. Long way away, though."

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"Where?"

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"West of here. Pretty far west."

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"You have anything else to offer us?"

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"Uh. I'm a noble among the humans. You want anything brought to a fairy ring around here, I can have it moved. Only if you can get me back."

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"There's another way to slow people down. It takes a night. It'd be very expensive for you."

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"I expect I can pay, although I'm not entirely sure what you people value."

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"I'll send for someone who could sort out an agreement."

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He nods.

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The other person arrives a while later. She's a tall black-haired woman of unguessable age in an odd silvery drapery. She regards him curiously and then sits down on the grass. "Hello," she says brightly. 

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"Hi."

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"You want to be slowed down by magic."

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"I understand that that's the way to return to the human world?"

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"Yes, it is. The humans are slow, compared to us. If we slow you back down, you'll be able to see them and interact with them again."

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"Then yes, I'd like to be slowed."

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"We like spices, foods from far away, cloth, tapestries, parchment, wine that's been aged a long time, we'd take a human but not two and we'd want food to go with it..."

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"Sure."

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"So for an agreement we specify what you intend to deliver and by when, and how you can renegotiate if for some reason circumstances prevent you from delivering that, and when we can kill you if you haven't delivered or renegotiated." She pulls out ink and paper.

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Yeah, he's good with all of that. 

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