Ok, more of a 3.5 actually. Both the H and the h have issues with being controlled by others - she's a weak djinni, and he was a sickly child who was kidnapped at age 5. So he, brilliant scientist that he is, has come up with a talisman that negates djinn ma at. She has decided she wants a baby and because for whatever reason, it's easier for a djinn/human pairing to have them, she's decided on him.She attempts to drag him back to Kaf and mostly succeeds but he activates his talisman which disrupts the whole thing and renders her powerless. Also inadvertently drops them in a particularly desolate area on Kaf where it takes 4 days of hiking in the burning desert to find civilization. Note to H - don't activate things like that when someone is teleporting you. It could spread your molecules all over the cosmos. Also, for a bright guy, you were pretty dumb there...
Many miles and blisters later, they reach civilization, he activates his toy a few more times, disrupting malicious magics and... they run into her friend. Only, her friend is a power hungry psycho who pulls an Emperor Palpatine and the h falls for it, shutting off the talisman and nearly getting the H killed.
Ok, so what bothers me is while I can understand that heroes should theoretically be the stronger partner, sometimes in the PNR world, that's just not possible. So why did the h have to be stripped of what little power she had? Oh, not the stripping for the duration of the nature walk as that provides a convenient method of making the H and h stick together. It's the permanent stripping that occurs at the end. I guess it's to conveniently allow her to live on earth (where she discovers she has a greater affinity to earth magic than typical Djinn magic anyway but still...
