I think you had it right the first time. Magic's pretty strange if you're not used to it. It's not really something people can use in my world so coming here and learning it's real was pretty weird. But you don't have to keep it a secret here.

[He's just staring for a moment because...well. She's kind of adorable, and he's mostly a little stunned because he hasn't really met anybody who's actually younger than he is. The addition of "san" to his name, though never used in the Drabwurld, doesn't seem out of place to him. He's heard the suffix applied to others in San Fransokyo but never to himself.] Uh, yeah! Sort of? I'm actually only half...[There's his own sheepish look, hand coming up to rub at the back of his neck. He tilts his head, noticing that she seems to be struggling and he can only guess what she's doing.] I haven't figured out the magic behind the language thing either.

I think so. Halloween's based off of Samhain in the first place but in worlds like ours it's a thing of the past so it's pretty different for us. [Oh man she's just like Colette. That's it. Bubbly Seelie girls are going to be the death of him.] Plus this one lasts for five days and it's a lot harder to tell who's who.

[Courts still matter to Hiro, but not as much as they used to if he's being honest with himself. Samhain's a great excuse not to care and start to meet more people.]

Sounds like you showed up to this world around the same time I did.