"You're welcome. I hoped you would. It was the prettiest one I could find that was different than the ones in the mortal world." There were others but they looked so foreign that he hadn't been sure if they'd be appreciated. Sometimes their colors seemed too bright or their edges turned the wrong way. Beautiful in their own way but not what a mortal might appreciate. "I liked the flowers you gave me." They were carefully drying in one of the storage rooms to be put with the few things he still had from the outside world.

Kneeling down beside Adam, he smiled when the caterpillar was settled on the leaf. When he was sure that it would be safe from the cats and be able to find other places to crawl, he stood and took the gifts. The newspaper looked like the ones that he'd seen in the mirror or reproduced in books. The magazine. Tipping his head to one side, starting to blush when he read the titles of some of the articles. "Uh - I knew attitudes had evolved, but I didn't know that some subjects were so - uh - out in the open."