[Even before she greets him, Rip knows from the way her face brightens that this must somehow, impossibly, be Gideon. Her hug is arm and welcoming, and he returns it carefully.
It's all so very strange, even for Wonderland. At first, he wonders if this might not somehow be the beginnings of an event--but her confusion seems to indicate that it isn't so.
An arrival then. Of Gideon. In human form.]
That's, ah, a bit complicated, I'm afraid. [He draws back slowly, hardly sure of where to begin. He's helped introduce the concept of Wonderland to others before, knows all the things he's meant to say--and yet at the moment, it seems he finds it far more pressing to reach up and lightly brush his fingers along Gideon's cheek.
As if the hug had somehow not been proof enough that she were real.]
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It's all so very strange, even for Wonderland. At first, he wonders if this might not somehow be the beginnings of an event--but her confusion seems to indicate that it isn't so.
An arrival then. Of Gideon. In human form.]
That's, ah, a bit complicated, I'm afraid. [He draws back slowly, hardly sure of where to begin. He's helped introduce the concept of Wonderland to others before, knows all the things he's meant to say--and yet at the moment, it seems he finds it far more pressing to reach up and lightly brush his fingers along Gideon's cheek.
As if the hug had somehow not been proof enough that she were real.]