"Why indeed." So this is working. Tim is finally going somewhere in his conversation for once.

"Perhaps it's like a mosquito," Dorian theorizes in a lazy way of thinking. "A mosquito drains innocent people of blood, but it is so small and has a mouth so tiny that it can only take a few drops at a time."

He smiles, pondering what he himself just said. "If that was true, that we would have lost so much more at once if Wonderland was an actual world, and not just a small area floating in space."