Reluctantly, he takes a very small piece of bread and practically swallows it whole he's so eager to have his pen to hand again without risking crumbs on his books. He will, however, take more time to drink some tea.

"My normal isn't the standard normal in my world, so I'm not a good person to ask about that," he admits and amends a note. "But maybe it would help if you looked at this a different way. For every closed door there's an open one. Maybe if you looked at this as an opportunity it would help. What would you do if you'd been told, while you were home, that there was a place where anything was possible and worlds met? Where would you go? What would you seek out?"