"Well, it's not really polite to tell someone to just stop talking when they're having a good time," Bucky says, half-smiling over his cup of coffee. "And I didn't really know what to say anyway. There's a lot of things you know that I've never heard of."

Magic, for one. Bucky thinks there's a form of it in his world but it's more powered people like him and Steve and Wanda, not dragons and fairies like Merlan described.

"Besides, I'm usually too quiet. It's easier for someone else to fill in the gaps."