Lily looked at him uncertainly, wondering if he was joking. She decided to try giving him a small smile and a little jest of her own. "Maybe, for the birds but I doubt most folks would agree after adding in time for an emergency room visit."

Old man? "But you look younger than me." He couldn't be more than about 23, around Maya's age, even if the style of his clothes was antiquated.

"So, where are you from?" The garments looked kind of Japanese but the bit of hair she could see peeking out from under the strange headdress was blond. And didn't he say something in French earlier...?