The only reason Elphaba was as calm as she was about it was because she'd adjusted to this place and the things that could happen here. "I used to be alarmed, and took things hard. But after being here for a year and a half, one just learns to go with the flow." It sometimes didn't take people long to adjust to this place, especially if they were used to weird things happening in their own worlds.
"You're welcome. It is lucky that someone in the know happened by. Or ran into you, actually." Elphaba smiled a bit wider. Smiling was coming to her more naturally now, which undoubtedly had been Galinda's influence as well as Elena's. Not that she was complaining about that now.
Elphaba relaxed even further upon hearing Bruce wasn't so comfortable around people either. At least she wasn't the only one. Though when he mentioned having a condition, Elphaba tilted her head slightly in curiosity. "I am sorry that you have a condition like that. I sort of have one too that ostracized me in my own world. The people I have met here, however, have been more accepting." She didn't mind that he wasn't specific, but she hoped that offering her own vague response would help put him at ease.
At the offered hand, Elphaba sort of looked at it for a moment, not used to the gesture, but after a moment, she reached out and took his hand. "It isn't so difficult to get a handle on this place. I can show you to the complex, if you'd like? Oh, and I should tell you there is a communication board we all use on the internet to communicate, but evil can read it too. So if you wish to post on the board, you should filter against evil so Lucifer and his demons can't read it. And you should also filter against Jim Moriarty, who is from some Sherlock Holmes stories, though not exactly as the books depict him. There is also a vampire named Katherine who isn't nice. And she looks exactly like my friend Elena, so just be warned of that. Katherine and Elena are actual dopplegangers from their world, but there are people who look exactly alike but are from different realities. So do not be alarmed if you see more than one person with the same appearance."