The doctor looks at the cigarette a little too long, but then one can practically watch him in realtime decide not to fight that particular battle. Addiction and lifelong habits and comfortable vices are hard to be argued with. A once-in-a-while beach excursion, though…

“I read up on it in a local herbalism book,” Strange offers, in a feeble attempt to make the ghastly jar sound a little more appealing. “It’s actually a folk recipe commonly used amongst the Rivaini. Perfectly vouched-for. People do this sort of thing on the open sea and on the islands.”

It is very normal!!

(He’s very aware he probably sounds like a freak.)