A second ago she was at work in the temple of Erastil in Sothis, which was actually going pretty okay, all things considered. Now she's in a grassy field with a couple fruit trees and a table and chairs and some notebooks and pens.
This is unexpected and requires a ton of power and is therefore sort of inherently terrifying. And she's alone, and defenseless, and she doesn't know where Verita is.
She mills around in steadily increasing amounts of distress until Hagan appears, just as suddenly.
"You don't learn as much as you might expect from losing a fight with the Osirian military but I guess they might pick something up."
"I was more worried about them being smart enough to try to learn things before they launch an invasion plan."
"I feel like it's - we don't really know enough about them to make sound plans with a lot of moving parts."
"We're gonna have to make some kind of plans to get the kids at all."
"Yeah, I agree with that. But the more people you have to think about, the more complicated things are going to get, right? And sparking a war between two countries, potentially between two planets, is involving about as many people as possible, right away."
"I'm not 100% clear how compelling Cecelia finds it but it's at least any compelling."
"Kind of means changing your strategy about how to get the kids, right, if you're going to make sure Cecelia's new friends kill their father."
"At least not until you have a better idea of how you'd do it without causing more problems, I think."
"Like, even then, we probably just shouldn't be in the business of going around killing people who suck. Even if it'd be their own fault."
"I guess that is probably also something that good people ought to concern themselves with, yes."
" - I just mean that I'm not really a moral authority on anything and I'm not sure I can give very meaningful advice on that."
"I don't - think it gets harder to figure out what's good for people if you're aiming for Axis or whatever. Hell."
"I just - would not really expect my perspective on this to be particularly valuable to you. It's not even particularly valuable to me."
"I usually find your perspective on things to be valuable. Like Fazil's. Or Mahdi's. Even though we're going for different things."
Nod.
"I don't actually have strong opinions on when it's appropriate to kill someone. At least not in situations as weird as this one."
"I - struggle a little bit with whether the emperor of Scandinavia is worse than - my entire family - and that makes this hard for me to think about very usefully I think."
"That makes sense.
"I - kind of think that especially in situations where the person you're killing is an emperor, it's maybe smart to think about the political effects of his death more than how much he personally deserves to be alive. And right now we don't know them."
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