[ He's always been curious, sometimes too curious for his own good. It hasn't always served him well, but the point is, when he was told of people with special abilities, and the existence of magic in other universes, he was curious far more than he was skeptical.

Dinosaurs walk the Earth where he's from, after all. He's not really in a place to doubt that other seemingly impossible things might exist somewhere out there. ]

Really. [ After having moved away as directed, he leans down to take a peek inside the oven. ] That's pretty amazing. Magic's just fantasy, where I'm from. I mean— we have dinosaurs. But that was all science. [ And some people playing God. Nothing even remotely magical. ]