[Braincell-to-braincell communication....... or is it clown-to-clown communication, we just don't know at this point, even if they are currently surrounded by and/or participating in a whole steam circus.

Cid nods back gravely.]

Mmm, I mean... I guess a lot of mages and wizards and whatnot really like their mysteries-- [yeah, he kind of gets that part; you can't reveal all your secrets, so it's more like...] --so it's sort of like if you were playing poker with the foreign spies for the water, and then they really wanted to test exactly how you get your coffee.

Like a personality test.

[You shouldn't have enabled him because now this metaphor has busted out of its chrysalis and become a horrible moth of madness and mayhem.]

If all the magic sugar's any indication, though, I bet it's not that hard to pass.