Ruby listens in a shocked kind of silence. Granted, she found out that she was a fairy tale character kind of out of nowhere, but this is a whole different kind of weird. There was only so much denial you could go through when you were dealing with your own memories.
And what's the right thing to say? But hey, now you have more family! or Aw, you're still an only child, too, kinda. Both seemed horribly simplistic, hanging onto the old or naively cutting down the new and ignoring the complications.
"That's... wow." A little pause, and the faintest tug of a smile. "I'm sorry. Are you okay?" With that. Even if it's old news. It's never not going to be big news, far as she can figure out.
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And what's the right thing to say? But hey, now you have more family! or Aw, you're still an only child, too, kinda. Both seemed horribly simplistic, hanging onto the old or naively cutting down the new and ignoring the complications.
"That's... wow." A little pause, and the faintest tug of a smile. "I'm sorry. Are you okay?" With that. Even if it's old news. It's never not going to be big news, far as she can figure out.