"Me either. Always found it interesting from a distance, though. I went through a mythology phase for a while as a kid. Couldn't get enough of reading about all of it."

Well, the ones considered publicly acceptable to write up as mythology, anyway. And then there's the one religion in his world he won't touch with a hundred-foot pole, but no need to bring that up here. Ever.

"So it's sort of interesting to learn about all these new holidays. Someone else warned me about, uh, a fruit-cake?"