"'Unbelievable'?" echoes Peridot, mildly incredulous. "In case you've somehow missed this glaringly obvious detail, let me point out to you that this isn't exactly an ordinary carnival. Or did you somehow miss the crowds of people sporting extra mouths and wings and eyes back there?"

Not that Peridot's any stranger to skepticism. Stars know she had a hard enough time wrapping her head around all of this fae nonsense... she's just grown pretty numb to it at this point.

"Anyway, if you really want to get out of here, you're just going to have to wait for the main gate to open back up again in a few hours," she says. "That's just how it works around here."