Giggling, he shakes his head.

"Well, happy to have pleasantly surprised you."

"I haven't laughed like that in years," he says. "Thank you."

"You're quite welcome!"

He smiles. As far as it's possible to tell, on that face, it seems sort of sad.

She smiles back. She - notes the hint of sorrow, but thinks he might not appreciate it if he pried. So she doesn't.

"Does the place change as it likes whenever it wants, or is it - I want to say twisting a painted canvas?"

"It keeps most things steady unless there's a need, but it can change whatever it wants to change."

"Huh. So I shouldn't get overly attached to the layout of anything."

He nods.

"... I'm probably going to be frustrated by the layout changing subtly anyway," she predicts, wryly.

"I'm used to it by now," he says, just as wryly. "Though it does respond to what I want, and perhaps it will do the same for you."

"You hear that, valley? Stability. I would like stability."

"Wouldn't you get tired of everything being exactly the same forever? I know I would."

"Well, yes, but there's things changing to keep it from getting too dull, and then there's 'the floorplan is never the same from day to day,' and one is vaguely helpful for my mental health and the other really, really isn't."

"Ah. It already does not do the second thing."

"Good."

"It does try to make things comfortable here."

"Well, that's better than the alternative. It could just - catch me and lock me in a doorless room with scheduled meals until the end of time. I'm glad it doesn't do that."

"No, instead it locks you in an enormous beautiful palace," he agrees. "Where food and drink appear in charmingly whimsical ways for the asking."

Snort.

"The flying picnic basket isn't the only whimsical food delivery method?"

"It has plenty more!"

"I think I'll tentatively look forward to witnessing them all."

He laughs.

She smiles.

It's nice to make someone happy. She doesn't precisely make people unhappy, but she's never been such an unambiguous positive for someone else's mood before. It's - pleasant. This is probably how her brother feels around people.

Happy tail-swish.

"...I want to go for a run now," he says. "I think the valley can be trusted to give you most things you might ask for, except for an exit."