"Definitely," Wilhelm chuckles. "It's like a bad dream. Like, you look down and you suddenly realize you forgot to put pants on."

Since those embarrassing first steps into this world — well, not steps so much as flops, sprawled on his side like a fish in the hull of a boat — so much has happened. He's not the same boy who the mages pulled from the fountain two years ago, not really. Anyway, if an uncomfortable moment of nudity is the biggest oddity this guy has come across so far, it sounds like he'll be okay.

"Hey, are you hungry?"