When he pulled his hand back again, Gretel caught her bottom lip in her teeth. Then when he spoke, with his strange mix of monotone fascination, she actually snickered. And it felt good to do so.
Everything she had yet to deal with- the emotional tangle and irrational hurt and loneliness in her head... she'd wanted a break from it, and she found it. Not in the mindless distraction of a game, but this simple interaction with a being so complicated, she couldn't even wrap her head around his existence. Yet here she was, teaching him something he'd obviously never known before.