[...You know, that question would be rather easier to answer if he weren't certain that he's hallucinating, good lord what is- ]

...I'll manage.

[The words leave him before his thoughts really catch up; he's sort of staring at this person that's chosen to join him here, but he doesn't seem troubled by the alterations on him - if anything, he finds them more interesting than alarming. Striking, but not in a bad way at all.]

You could say it's not my first time dealing with cursed villages. This one is more pleasant than what I recall of the last.