There would be hugs and tears and possibly some screaming? Not necessarily in that order. SHE MISSES HIM OKAY.
Teen Numair would throw her for all kinds of a loop. She'd have a lot of complicated feelings -- glad he's here in some sense but upset that he's not her Numair. He might as well be a stranger, but he's still so familiar? She'd either find him insufferable or fascinating or some uncomfortable combination of both, and she'd be really, really cranky about it.
Greta is probably still more impressed than she should be with pastries that are loaded with cinnamon or chocolate or anything else she probably wasn't able to buy in bulk back in fairy tale land. Brownies feel like an absurd indulgence, simple as they might be.
You ask that as if, absent the Yikes™ backstory, he isn't objectively a Catch. :P He waltzed right out of her adolescent fantasies and asked her out for tea, for goodness sake.
But as far as what she finds endearing about him: his gentleness; how good he is with Saoirse; the fact that, despite also coming from a pretty classist society, he's never made her feel belittled or disposable; his poise (and the moments when she manages to disrupt it). And knowing the Yikes™ backstory, she also appreciates how hard he's worked to be a good man and live an honest afterlife.
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Teen Numair would throw her for all kinds of a loop. She'd have a lot of complicated feelings -- glad he's here in some sense but upset that he's not her Numair. He might as well be a stranger, but he's still so familiar? She'd either find him insufferable or fascinating or some uncomfortable combination of both, and she'd be really, really cranky about it.
Greta is probably still more impressed than she should be with pastries that are loaded with cinnamon or chocolate or anything else she probably wasn't able to buy in bulk back in fairy tale land. Brownies feel like an absurd indulgence, simple as they might be.
You ask that as if, absent the Yikes™ backstory, he isn't objectively a Catch. :P He waltzed right out of her adolescent fantasies and asked her out for tea, for goodness sake.
But as far as what she finds endearing about him: his gentleness; how good he is with Saoirse; the fact that, despite also coming from a pretty classist society, he's never made her feel belittled or disposable; his poise (and the moments when she manages to disrupt it). And knowing the Yikes™ backstory, she also appreciates how hard he's worked to be a good man and live an honest
afterlife.