There had been so many new people joining up with the carnival lately that she still hadn't had the chance to learn everyone's names and faces yet. It was hard to keep up! When he stuck his hand out, she took it for a handshake. It wasn't necessarily something that fae did when they greeted each other, but she'd been alive for over a hundred years and had observed human mannerisms more than enough to learn them and get used to them.
"Nice to officially meet you." It would have been nicer if she was actually in a better mood. A bummed out Ellie was not the best Ellie you could run into. When he said that he was wandering around looking for a missing shoe, she looked rather curious. "A missing shoe?" And only one shoe? How did you lose a shoe randomly like that?
"But yeah...I lost something. Or rather, it had to have been taken from me because I don't lose these kinds of things...and it's just depressing."