Adrian laughed at that. "No, I'll be back with my family in the heart of the Blackwood," he said. "Oh! Right! You probably don't know! All Blackwood groves are connected. So I can walk through my grove and exit in the one in Massachusetts. That's how my mom and my aunts got here. Mine is still a baby, so I have to use more power to support it, but with careful--" He stopped. "Right. You don't care about the nitty-gritty details. Anyway, I'll be safe as houses."

He looked like he might have said something else, but subsided. "Do you know what you're going to dress up as?" he asked, in what was not at all a conversational redirect, honest.