"I assure you, I never thought you close minded, merely cautiously practical," he assured her.

She seemed someone who had enough experience in the world to know that there was a reasonable explanation for most things. He had no doubt once she exhausted those explanations, she would arrive at the conclusion that others were telling the truth.

"Tea would be wonderful, there is a shop not far from here. And I understand, we could be from the same worlds and you would never know it, the existence of such things are indeed very closely guarded secrets in my world."