Oh, the robin definitely seemed to project all of Blake's enthusiasm for him. Did that mean that he'd been looking forward to learning more about her? Martha smiled as she turned back toward him.

It wasn't that she kept details from people, but Martha had never been the bragging type. If it came up, she would openly tell people about her life, but she wasn't going to advertise it everywhere. Not unless it was relevant, and that wasn't always the case in Wonderland.

But this was a way for both of them to open up, and so she didn't hesitate with it.

"Common sense, yeah. You'd think it would be, but not when time travel's involved." The scenery around them started to warp as she spoke, and the nightingale took to the sky again. In fact, as it flew, the sky seemed to change in its wake, opening up to show stars and swirling galaxies and different planets.

"I've been backward, forward, to other worlds, but there are rules, you know? You can't just go changing things around so that this or that never happened. It's like the butterfly effect. One small change, and everything would be different."

And no one should have that kind of power. No one could have that kind of power.

"Good thing your past isn't filled with angst, isn't it?" the nightingale called out from overhead. "Otherwise you might have been tempted!"