[Al nods but doesn't pry. Complicated stories he'd rather not tell are familiar territory, so he's not going to begrudge anyone else their privacy. Geir did say he showed up alongside someone important to him, so Al assumes that probably makes the circumstances easier to handle.]

Well, the important thing is making the most of where you are.

[It's then that he notices a couple of the Palai kids are watching and adopts a faux conspiratorial voice that makes them stop playing long enough to listen in like they're about to be told a vital secret.]

And the best thing you can do in another world... is try as many different kinds of food as possible.