"You bet it did. They just put me in an arena where no one looked like anyone from anywhere back home and said the games were starting. And then everyone started hugging everyone else. That was a weird day." He had been under the impression that hugging was just the accepted form of greeting strangers in this new place. He ended up hugging a lot of strangers. In retrospect, whoops.

"How did you come here? I'm betting it wasn't as weird as that."