"Hey, we signed up to hang around an ancient elder fae, that's exactly the sort of thing we should expect to have to deal with, right along with 'you may end up in hell' and 'by the way, here's a dimension that compromises your free will as a reward'." NOT THAT ASH WAS BITTER -- honestly, except for the last one, she wasn't bitter, having accepted the truth of the situation and well aware that it was worth what she'd gotten out of it. "I mean, we're totally doomed with this crowd, so this is going to turn into some jailbreak or something anyway, but we're still gonna try, right?"