Fae lore said that if you ate or drank in Faerie aka Risest, you would have to stay there forever. Of course, in the high fantasy books I read, most of the women didn’t care if that was their fate. They inevitably ended up banging the hot winter prince anyway, before finding out they were his true or chosen mate. Clearly not my fate, and yet, I was drinking the water anyway. Living on the edge.

