"Flynn Scifo," Flynn says, easy as anything, still smiling. "It's a true pleasure to meet you."

So strangely simple, is the thing: novel, to sit beside someone and meet them, to make friends. There is something maybe about the mundanity of it, away from monsters and skeletons and light. They are two strangers getting closer.

"Don't get too excited about the interest—oh! A beer, please— do you have a preference? It's alright if your answer is no. It might be something you simply need to discover. For example, adding hot sauce to a cocktail makes it much more interesting, which I had to learn by trying it. Maybe it's something I knew, before, but I couldn't say."