"Yeah, yeah, I'm Hippolyte," says the youth with a wide smile, nodding as he says so in a mix of vanity and relief to have a subject he's familiar with to talk about. "Yeah, I have a lot of fans. Some of them are pretty weird. Silver statue you say? That's pretty cool. Silver. Yeah. Good metal. Shame he returned it. You don't still have it, do you?"

And then shrinking ladies who speak in run-on-sentences and oracles! "The Oracle? That makes sense sure, but shouldn't we be fighting Ti..." He pauses, considering what he's saying for a moment. "Actually no, the Oracle sounds good. When are we leaving?"