After joining me, Glinda said, "Elphie, is everything okay?" I shook my head and said, "I don't know, Lin, I honestly don't know." She sighed and said, "Elphie, you've been acting really funny since I've arrived—when the other guys—your friends and your sorcerer brother—are flirting with me, you get mad—and then when I do hang out with you, you want to be alone. Why?" I shrugged and said, "Glinda, does it matter?" "It matters to me." she told me angrily. Fighting tears, I said, "I think if I tell you what's troubling me, it'll make you mad or sad." "What is it, Elphie?" she asked.
"Glinda, aren't you engaged?" I asked casually. Glinda sighed and said, "After the Emerald City, I broke up with Fiyero—I wouldn't talk to any of my other 'friends' and I worked really hard in school—for a little while and eventually we got back together, but I ignored him some of the time, except for at night, when I had the nightmares. No one knew what was wrong—I never told Nessa—I became friends with her after you left—and I got pretty depressed. Another thing, is like you, I saw something." I grabbed her wrist and asked, "What do you mean?" "I missed you so much, Elphie—I wished I was with you and whenever I didn't understand something—I tended to do that a lot—I saw you sitting at your desk, and you'd come over and explain whatever I was working on, like you'd used to when we were roommates at Shiz." I clapped my hand over her mouth and said, "Glinda, the thing is, before I met the Wizard—the second time I snuck out of Shiz, I came to Corus in order to find out when George would be back so you could meet him and on my way back, I saw the Great Mother Goddess and she gave a prediction—'Sir Elphaba Thropp of Trebond and Conté, you shall choose to do what is right but at the loss of a special friendship and the cost of a dream'—and it wasn't until I first defied gravity that I understood and after I left you in the Emerald City, I was scared you'd hate me and want nothing more to do with me and you'd forget about our friendship and everything and I couldn't bear the idea of you being insulted or anything..." I paused and said, "Give me a second." She nodded and I slowly said, "You still want to be my best friend." She nodded eagerly and I hugged her tightly.
She stared at me and said, "Okay, well, that changes things." I sighed and asked, "Are you angry?" "No," she said. "I'm actually glad you told me that—I think that's why I got depressed—I was—am—still your best friend, no matter what the Wizard says." Then I asked, "What nightmares?" Glinda sighed and said, "See, I'm running through the Emerald City, screaming for you, and I reach the tower—you know what tower I'm talking about—and when I get there, there's no broom, no Gale Force, nothing. I ask about the Witch of the West and everyone looks like I'm crazy, and then I scream bloody murder and wake up."
I sighed and said, "We can't be friendly with each other in Oz, or here in Tortall." Glinda scowled and said, "I've yet to tell the Wizard." I froze and said, "I have a plan for telling the Wizard—I go free the Monkeys, do something that will force him to send for the Gale Force, you come downstairs, and tell the Wizard the truth—sound simple enough?" She nodded and added, "Until that point in time, we're enemies by day, friends by night—like at Shiz, agreed?" "Agreed," I said grimly, recalling how we'd come up with the deal to protect me, and her, from being hurt by her other so-called 'friends' during our college days.
Then Glinda sighed and said, "I'll miss you when I return to Oz." I paused and said, "I'll escort you to Fief Trebond and help you find the quickest, and safest, route back to the Emerald City—it's the least I can do." Glinda nodded and said, "Thanks, Elphie." I hugged and said, "We say our goodbyes at Trebond, agreed?" She nodded, saddened by the idea of us parting.