"They're called 'grapes,'" he says as he munches on another one, deliberately misunderstanding. "They've been growing them in the Western regions for millennia. In Lou Lan, you see these terraced orchards everywhere, grape vines as far as the eye can see. They're dried for eating, too, but it seems they're mainly for wine."

Gu Yun is a font of random information, and will happily chatter away in a long stream of consciousness when he's in a good mood.

"There's nothing obvious, I just hadn't seen you around town before." Well, that and the fact that the man couldn't recognize green magic on sight, is what pegs him as a newcomer. There had been a fair the previous month encouraging Avalon's residents to learn all about new types of magic, and discover their own.