Amesaya

"Always remember, no matter how much a fae may seem like they experience emotions, no matter how human like a fae may behave...a fae can never be a human."

The Keybearer. A young maiden from another world foretold by ancient prophesy, destined to collect the seven keys and save the world. 

Surely that's the kind of story that finds some plucky high schooler dreaming of adventure and whisks them off to find their true love, right? Overworked salary women like Emily have long passed the point where such fantasies can come true, and even if they did, it's not like she'd know the first thing about what to do.

...So of course, nobody even bothered to ask her before dropping her into an entirely new world full of magic and danger. Like the three hungry orcs eyeing her as soon as she wakes up.

"What do you mean I can sense the keys if I use magic?!  What magic?!"

If Emily could, she'd have immediately issued a rejection letter, but unfortunately, the only way back is to finish her quest somehow.

But it's not all danger and confusion. The knight who rushed into battle to save her is charming and kind and gorgeous, and the beautiful and lonely prince has a soft and kind smile only for her. If everyone she meets along the way is like them...

Well. It can't be that bad, right?

"...--I'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED BY A PAINTING?!"

My Knight Rescuer is a Jerk! So Why should I ignore the Prince?

By the end of the afternoon, they were packed and ready to go.

She still felt uneasy...but Adrien's words did comfort her.

They weren't abandoning Verilonia, just...taking a break.

That was how she would think of it.

The fact was, she needed to leave Verilonia anyway so she could find the keys scattered through the world.

It would have been nice to find the third key first.

And also...she did feel kind of...comfortable living in Verilonia. It felt like a kind of second home, after her actual one back in Earth.

That, and she'd just spent all that time in the fae festival and then that annoying cave. She wanted more down time.

The people of Verilonia wouldn't have known that, due to the time dilation involved.

One Hundred and Fifty-Sixth