She nodded again. "Before I left the inn, Dreamy had given me a pouch that contained fairy dust. And when the trap I had laid out for the Yaoguai worked, I found myself out of my options." The creature had written in the dirt, pleading for her help. With no other ideas she had dumped the contents of the pouch over the creature and found herself gaping at a man, the prince, Phillip.
While telling Rumpel all of this though, she was careful to study him, unsure how he would react to her using that sort of magic. She knew why he disliked --to put it mildly-- the fairies, but again, there was no reason for her to hide this.
"When all was said and done, Prince Phillip was kind enough to help me bring Mulan back to her village safely so that she could be treated for her injury. It was there that I parted ways with them and decided to go back to the castle. To you."