I take it that I'm not the first of my world you've run into.

[ Thank -- well, thank someone at any rate. It was going to be back to his mother's faith for expletives, if this kept up.

It's no small reassurance to know he's not alone here, though his nerves flare at the identities of other arrivals. If others from the past might exist, then who else -- ?

It's an uneasy thought, and it dims some of the light behind his own smile. ]

I'll do my best to abstain from any exclamations. It can't be easy to find oneself the subject of a stranger's legend, let alone one's facial hair. They're really quite good little candies, though. Hop about all over the place -- wonderfully entertaining, until one wanders off and melts.

[ He gestures as he speaks, fingers casually imitating the escape attempt of some imagined chocolate frog. ]

Bit of a pain to clean up around the holidays, I have to admit, but minor irritations are half the recipe of any celebration.

That rune, though -- fascinating -- reusable, if you restitch it?