When the Monkey had finally released her, Elphaba bent down to pick up the disregarded sword from the purple carpet.
She was about to resheath it, when Glinda came towards them out from a hole in the wall it seemed.
"Hey," Elphaba smiled at her.
Her voice was still thick from the crying.
Glinda only smiled back at her, unsure of her own, yet.
She wordlessly reached up towards the white face, that now, after the bout of crying, bore definite marks of green.
"You're a mess." She stated simply, dabbing and smudging at the whiteness, to cover up the worst, just in case they should run into any guards.
She cupped Elphaba's cheek, briefly.
"Let's get you all cleaned up, shall we?"
With that her hand went to take the green girl's gloved one as if by instinct.
Memory lay heavily on Elphaba as they traversed the green halls with the purple carpeting, hand in hand.
The last time, they had done so, she had been beyond nervous at meeting the Wizard, hoping to band together with him, freeing the Animals..being a Team.
All of her life's dreams had lain before her, finally to be fulfilled in a heartbeat.
And then, she and Glinda had run through these halls..hand in hand..fleeing that selfsame Wizard..
While Elphaba had left, Glinda had remained behind..roaming these halls, forevermore..just as she had roamed the forests.
"A lot of green.." she sighed.
Glinda turned to her, bemused, and gave her hand a squeeze.
"You get used to it." She joked.
Gratefully, Elphaba smiled back at her.
There was so much that she wanted to know.
So much, that she needed to say.
She heard Glinda curse softly next to her.
Raising an eyebrow at the unusual exclamation, Elphaba turned to see the other woman limping slightly next to her.
"Blasted shoes.." the blonde stopped to free her hurting feet from the offending garments.
In what was obviously a routine with them, Chistery went over to the blonde, ready to take them from her.
Grinning, Elphaba watched the scenario, only to bend down herself, unnoticed by either one of them, and picked up the smaller woman.
Glinda gasped in surprise.
The green girl only chuckled at the blonde's protests, refusing to set her down again.
Actually, she did prefer carrying a not quite as light as she seemed Glinda, who was continually half jokingly slapping at her, to the memories which lay so much heavier on her heart.
The emerald walls..the purple carpet…the last time she had been here..it had been to free the Monkeys.
It was almost then, that her dreams of teaming up with the Wizard and ending her perpetual loneliness would have come true..if he wouldn't have betrayed her so.
Betrayed all of Animalkind..everything she had believed in.
It would have been Wonderful, indeed.
She and her father..
Glancing down at the blonde, who was now giving her a mock serious death stare, she remembered, that Glinda was probably the key to that part of her past as well.
Making her face even, she pretended to stumble the last steps to the Ruler's chamber.
Her amazement at the string of colorful words that followed the blonde's threats, lest she drop her, was real however.