...this is the part Break missed, he realizes, seeing the Will's tearstained smile, seeing her elongated hands. This is the bit he was supposed to tend to himself and couldn't last long enough to see. They've told him about it since they arrived and Break has been satisfied with the closure of that, but of course it isn't the same as looking at it. If the relief on the Will's face was still there when they came to this place, it faded into more natural smiles before Break regained his sight. Oz's red Baskerville cloak stands out starkly even here, exactly the intense and vibrant shade whose absence had once let Break know he was losing the ability to see color at all. Cheshire runs to the Will and suddenly he's just a cat, in the same way Alice is now just a girl.

Even as he understands what's happening, it's easy to forget at first that what he's watching is Alice's death. But once he remembers -- once she notes that she'll be together with her precious pet in her next life, apparently entirely confident that she will have one -- Break's heart leaps to his throat.

Oz and the other Alice followed her in short order, after all.