[It is a great deal to think about and accept; Rip wonders for a moment if he has truly offered her kindness by revealing those details, one after the other, not unlike the way he might hand over a report of some incident, date and time, here are the facts. Yet seeing her stop—seeing her unable to hide her emotion, even if only for a moment, cements for Rip that the warning has indeed served its purpose. Although he wishes not to have inflicted what he believes to be pain, it would be worse, he thinks, if she were to have found Leonard first with no warning.

Particularly since Sara truly has no idea where she was meant to have ended up when she found herself in Wonderland instead.]

…Indeed. [He would like to offer more: an apology, perhaps, for being the bearer of the news. But as she so often does Sara takes her feelings and tucks them away, locks them behind walls that Rip cannot always see past. He hesitates but a moment before resuming his upward climb, sure she would do the same.]

Although I must confess, it’s less a crew than an unruly group of individuals most days. [Leonard and Mick in particular, which should come as no surprise. Rip has not told this to either of them, or to anyone else within Wonderland for that matter—but as he looks over at the woman, he feels compelled to tell her.

She is, after all, Sara.]

And it is rather hard to claim to be a Captain when one doesn’t possess a ship. [Or the brand of loyalty those close confines and shared mission had inspired.]