>>11722745As soon as Clara wakes up, she looks around, and immediately sees the wanderer.
"Andrew? Is..is that you?"
The wanderer looks up, a small shard of doubt in his mind was telling him that it wasn't going to work, that everything he had worked so long for was going to go to waste in the matter of seconds.
But it didn't.
He looks and sees the very pair of eyes he fell in love with all those decades ago, the most beautiful girl a hiker could ever have.
The wanderer looks at himself. In a strange twist, his speech begins to sound clearer as a result of their reunion, "I-Is it..? I...I honestly can't tell anymore. Everything just blends in with everything else. I can't tell what's real or not anymore. Are, are you real, Clara?"
Clara begins to giggle, "Oh stop fooling around, Andrew. I know it's you! I was just playing! Now, do you mind telling us where we are?"
The wanderer makes a confused expression, "Wait...Clara, you...you aren't mad about the rock slide? What I did? The boundaries I pushed...I...think? I was so angry, and you looked at me with contempt, you left, and I worried I wasn't ever going to see you again, and...and I...did something? And then the rocks, and-"
He is silenced by a hug.