[If this all turns out to be a dream, France would be miffled but only too happy to accept it. He's had worse dreams, although none quite so long and detailed. It's better than some of the alternatives France can imagine.]

[France nods, an air of knowledge about him.]

There are a great many people here who come from worlds where magic and such is entirely possible and even a fixture of everyday life. There is even one man here who claims to have traveled to the Moon on a whale.