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.
Yes. It is clothing. She has clothing for going outside, but she was inside before she came here, and so she does not have it. This seems like a much nicer outside, so she is kind of confused about why the new people are wearing clothes. They don't look like her clothes. But this place looks like it has a lot of stuff that her place doesn't, so maybe they made them out of something else, and didn't make them out of their own skin by flaying themselves alive several times.
She looks at the sky. It's a slightly different shade than her sky.
...she stands up and takes the jacket from him and holds it out to the other Karen.
She takes it. She examines the seams and the material and the collar and the zipper, trying to guess where the materials came from and how they were processed to make the jacket. She doesn't think she could make it by disassembling herself.
She puts the jacket on. It's softer than her jackets. That's cool. She pets it.
"Uh. We haven't tried the fruit trees, but they're probably safe, right?"
He walks over to the nearest tree, picks an apple, eats it. " - safe."
He picks another to offer her.
She takes the apple and bites into it, like he did.
- this apple is now the most important thing in the entire universe. She didn't even know that whatever this is was a thing that people could want, but whatever it is is incredibly desperately important and she has never had any of it ever.
She takes more bites. She walks over to the tree and gets herself another.
"No, but that's separate. It's been a couple years for me. Some dimensions move faster than others and Earth moves slower than most we know of."
"I don't think so. Just the fruit. The paper says a few hours until they're done, I don't think she'll starve. Probably won't even run out of fruit in that time."
She's eating fruit. Fruit is the most important thing that has ever existed. Maybe not literally the most important thing, having inside places and clothes for going outside might be more important, except here there's this weird soft green stuff on the ground and the air is a really nice temperature and she doesn't think her skin is getting burnt, and that makes clothing a lot less important.
When she's done with this apple she flies up to the top of the tree to pick herself another one.
She takes her apple with her and flies up very high into the sky, looking to see if there's anything else around. There doesn't seem to be. Just the knot of people by the table and the trees and the most! important! thing! ever! and also those two other people who are sitting a ways away from the others.
She flies over to the other two people and lands. She stares at them. She keeps eating her apple.
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