This is very comfortable and very strange and she has exactly zero clue about what one does when you feel comfortable with relative strangers. In her experience you either form an improvised girl gang and live in a forest escaping evil queens and murderwolves, or you go and work for them and end your day with discovering a heart in a box.

Red's dynamic with the Charmings is a special one, that's for sure. Hopefully with Adelaide there'll be less unexpected murder.

"That's the kind of bargain I can live with." Expectant and entirely tentative, Red holds out her hand for a pen - a quill? a charcoal stub? whatever - even as she glances down at the cat and gently blows a breath of air at him, smiling as she does so. "And I can definitely be a bad influence, believe me."