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"I’ve soht that would be where I ended up if I screwed up another job, and then I’d be even worse at being a waitress than I was at anything else And I orried that if the elves and the wizards stopped dealing with each other, I’d lose my job"

"Well, that’s apparently where your subconscious placed you in this world The elves are up to so, but here, all the prisoners are on the sao on like nothing is different Assume everyone around you is in on it until we know more and can come up with a plan Can you do that?"

"There are so many people here that I know!"

"Yeah, that’s what I figured, and we’ll take care of theo on for now, okay?"

She took a few deep breaths, then nodded "Okay I can do this"

I patted her on the shoulder "I know you can Now, are you ready to go back inside?"

"I guess Your breakfast is probably ready"

Back in the diner, the floor had been cleaned and the other waitress had put our meals on the table "You okay?" she asked Perdita

"Yeah I don’t knohat carease I’ve inhaled in here just came out of my pores and made that coffeepot slip out of my hand Sorry about that, Katie, Owen"

"No problem," Owen said with a thin smile

When the diner staff had left us to our o?"

"She’s freaked out, but I gave her the scoop Now I just guess we’ll have to see if she can pull it off"

"Maybe I should enchant her," he mused