[ Thanks for the suggestion. It gets a deadpan just as powerful. Sure, let me just reprogram my memories. Moron.

But he lets it slide by in a moment of silence, eyes closed and head tilted one side, trying to hear something no one else does. Stop making anxiety windstorms for two damn seconds and work with him. ]

Yes, but... He's distressed, but not surprised. Forest's been blighted for a while. Our kind of while. So a few centuries. [ What. ] Wonderland's just amplified it to an insane degree.