"Excellent! I'll just.. introduce you..." He trailed off as he looked around and realized that he has completely separated himself from the rest of his group. "Er. They are around here somewhere, I'm sure. Anyway."

He cleared his throat and rushed into a new topic to recover from that bit of awkwardness. "Did you manage the trip all right? I am fairly sure it is the strangest thing I have ever participated in, riding that... two-headed ostrich creature. Mine ran off into the desert as soon as we got here." He shook his head. His repeated assertion that this world didn't make any sense never ceased to gather supporting evidence. "But that's all right, I am just glad that they don't want us to do any digging or anything like that! I wasn't sure what to expect from that letter of theirs."