Ella was poking at the fire in the waiting room when she heard Nicolas' voice, and she put the poker away when she heard him. The servant in the room opened the door for him, and she walked over to the couch and patted it as she sat down. "How do you feel?" she asked first thing. If we could get to the kitchen, we could make him something, Beauty suggested, and Ella tsked at her. "I know that," she told the voice aloud, so worried about the recent debacle with the vines that she wasn't as careful as she should have been. Maybe Joanie could magic her a teapot out of thin air.
She still didn't know Tegan had been captured, and Georgy had yet to make another appearance, and so she took Nicolas' hands and squeezed them reassuringly. "Tell me who you've seen," she said, because that seemed to be the first thing you asked people in this survivalist horror novel they'd all been written into.