He has to admit, the flowers appearing like that are definitely on the strange side...but maybe not as strange as they might have once been Deciding to accept that magic actually exists here has helped that part of things quite a lot, even if he's a bit curious as to what happened to have the flowers turn up in the first place.

Trust Ruby to notice that he's been quieter than usual, though. There's been a fair amount of things on his mind lately, to be fair, but some of them aren't things he's ready to talk about yet, even to a friend. When he is, chances are Ruby's one of the people he'll be willing to talk to about it...but for now, he goes with something that's a bit less specific.

"Ah, I was just thinking." His mouth twitches ever so slightly, a flicker of humor crossing his face just long enough to be noticeable. "Despite what you might've heard, I've done that a time or two, you know. What about you? You've been very chatty lately, so I could ask the same thing."