She giggled down at him again.<br/><br/>"You were there, but now you're here.  Walked through the wrong door and now you're on the wrong side of the tracks. And it's chessboards all the way down, too..."<br/><br/>She skipped along for a few paces, then threw herself into space with jaw-dropping disregard for common sense and gravity, managing to land on the shelf opposite in a manner that made the ancient wood shudder and sent a cloud of dust drifting downwards.<br/><br/>"The important question is which way you will go when the Liebrary closes and you have to go out into the world on this side of the looking glass."  She plopped down again, swung her feet over the side, kicked them slowly.<br/><br/>"Look at it this way.  This is the first moment of the rest of your soon to be far more eventful life! Ever kill a metaphor in person?"