If one were to ask Belle why she was quick to resort to logic and a cool head, she probably wouldn't know. Perhaps it was to balance out her father with his ideas. Or perhaps it was from all the reading she did that allowed her to be more open to the unusual than others might expect. Or maybe, just maybe, it was both. Whatever it was, it was definitely proving beneficial in this particular situation.
Listening to Emma about the different people who showed up here, as well as those who were from here, Belle just nodded, tucking the information away for further use once she wasn't getting all the information ever handed to her. It was a good thing to have, to know her situation and to allow her a better chance to adjust as opposed to showing up and things always happening to throw her off. No, this was better to know. But hearing that people could be fictional and come from stories? That... was something else entirely. Different worlds, fine. Dimensions, that she could at least grasp. But to know that characters she read about could be here?
Okay. It made sense. A story was a world all of its own. It stood to reason that people from these stories could come to life in a way. But it certainly made one look at the stories they read in a different light.
"I see...."
Moving pictures was just.. that was something she wasn't even going to try to fathom at the moment. Compartmentalize and put things in order of necessity for understanding. Moving pictures wasn't that important when there was the whole new world thing to deal with.
"It sounds that way... But every major life change is hard to adjust to, really... this just.. has different things most don't?"
That made sense. Or it would at least help Belle cope with it. She had moved from Paris to a tiny town. And then went to a palace to save her father and took his place and met a beast and enchanted objects, things that should be inanimate explain things and show her around and entertain her in a dark time.
"There is? That is a lot of foresight to have, but if this has been going on for a while, I guess it makes sense? See what is needed... I've never really read of something quite like this, but some of the stories have mentioned safety locations for planning. But a safe place is good for such situations..."