Signing up to get real favors, with the kind of power the Ringmaster was throwing around above Eden? Now some of the people here make a little more sense. They weren't just rescued or tricked, they were bargaining for something. Then the rest of what Strange is saying sinks in.

"Whoa whoa whoa, wait. A year for one spell? What kind of magic is worth a whole year?" She's no mage, but that seems absurd, and under the disbelieve she really is dying to know.