Alice hummed, "Quite true. It would be terrible to simply vanish and others simply assume we've woken up, or some other such thing." No one would know to look for them, or might not eve think. If this world was anything like the Realm of Stories, people could just come and go without warning. Here it was as simple as waking up fully, rather than some piece of them remaining aware.

She moved then, sitting on her feet and giving a mushroom from her bag -one that she had picked hours ago- to the large green fox. It seemed to accept the token happily, standing back up as she dusted off her skirt.

"We shall return to this another day, and sate our curiosities then," better prepared if the worse did happen once that doo was opened.