"It's interesting," Dimitri says, and chuckles a little bit down at his own food. "Honestly, I'm surprised that it's not more common in other places... It seems as though the kind of thing that could have happened in my own homeland."

Patiently, he allows Hob to crawl up onto his lap, and adjusts his food accordingly. "I hope it wasn't too great a change, coming here for you. I know it has been for my friends and I."