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.
" - okay. It's important not to say your birth name, because if he knows it you're entangled. Every time he answers a question or does something for you, that magically puts you in his debt, which is a temporary kind of entanglement. Every time you do something for him or answer one of his questions, that puts him in your debt, and if the interactions even out, then you're even and not entangled anymore. I'm in his debt, a lot of debt, so I'm - I belong to him. We're entangled. Once two people are entangled, anything either of them does that the fairy magic disapproves of brings misfortune on both of them, disease or pain or death, so you mustn't do those things while you're entangled. You shouldn't lie, even a little. You shouldn't swear falsely. You shouldn't attack people whose debt you're in, though they're allowed to attack you. You shouldn't falsely accuse people of lying. And if you're in someone's debt, and they give you an order, and you refuse it, that puts you more in their debt. - I think that's most of it."
"Yikes. Okay. - then he's not even giving you food and shelter, he's just adding it to your magical - obligations to him?"
"Just that you can't keep a woman as your personal slave and do right by her. There's - there's lots of stories people like to tell themselves where they're kind enough or affectionate enough or well-meaning enough, or she's happy enough in the moment, and they like to say that's good enough, but it's not. The only way to do right by a woman, if you want her in your bed, is to marry her."
"Then I guess fairies can't do right by women, ever. Sounds tough. I kinda can't get married either and sometimes it makes me sad but I don't pretend that I should run off with someone and say nice things instead of promises."
Patpatpat. "It's okay. We can - we can figure it out when we're alone sometime, if this isn't a good time -"
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