You're a true taskmaster, you know that, right? [Still! He got the twinkle! It's always worth it just to get that in Alfred's eye, that little bit of look, even if this isn't the same one, it doesn't matter.]

It's good to hear you're doing well! You know, I keep having to remind myself of being in a completely different world, because sometimes some things seem so similar? Or maybe it's just people who seem similar, and then you get the ones who talk about things like magic, and I get way too excited about real magic. [He loves magic. Real magic.]

But then yeah, you get the ones who hardly seem real, and they talk about... creatures you've never heard of, or wars that never happened for you, and that's insane, right?