She has to get this absolutely right. She cannot misphrase, cannot get things in the wrong order. She should probably assume that Ruin has all the powers of this world and just for safety's sake also Fairyland.

She lands on the still ground.

"Listen to me," she says. "You may, truthfully and completely and without attempt to deceive me or drown out my voice or distract me from tasks, and without via any mental circumlocution permitting these things to happen as a side effect, answer my questions. Are there any other people left alive in this world?"