[Well... Of course the Professor is just as excited as ever. Dimitri smiles a little bit, fond. All of that ruffled hair...]

[Wait, strange thing in the chest.]

Oh! Professor, I forgot - Professor, that would be your heart.

[Immediately he starts to guide the other man over to a bench that is near the entrance of the route. The people in this land know very well that sometimes a person just needs to sit immediately after so much travel.]

This place does strange things... Changing people's forms, or what they can do, slightly. My Crest no longer works here, for example.