"You know, I think you and I will get along just fine. I'm much the same way, fully content to have my nose in a book. Yet somehow I've managed to collect friends and be social during my stay here." Really, it still amazed her, though she really had to credit Jack and Bonnie for getting her started on that path. If it hadn't been for Jack's constant poking at her to get her to open up, and then Bonnie being there when Jack got sent back to his world, she would be the Wicked Witch of the West as this world seemed to know her as.
"And hey, you've gotten some familiarity with your surroundings, so I say this is an outing well executed!" Elphaba grinned a bit, perhaps the first genuine grin this entire time. But she was genuinely appreciating this, and she did have a fondness for helping out people who had no clue where they were and making friends.