Peridot actually hadn't been expecting anyone back any time soon, so the sudden entrance of the pair of them catches her very much by surprise. From the looks of things, she'd been hunched over a battered old laptop doing some research up until their arrival, with her dog sacked out on the couch next to her.

Now both girl and dog are very much alert. Pumpkin jerks awake and lifts her head, wagging her tail at a steadily increasing speed, like she's revving up to take off.

"Mr. Strange!" Peridot chirps, hopping to her feet excitedly. Lambert gets a puzzled look, and she shrugs innocently. "He's the contact that I mentioned the other day. You know, the magician? The one from the Circle?" She folds her arms and looks pointedly at Strange. "I never did hear from anyone about that, for the record. I was going to call you..."

Was, but kept putting it off. Her dreams of the Circle have felt rather irrelevant, with everything that's been going on.