Getting a look like that was more than enough to make Trahearne realize that he had just put his foot in his mouth. "You do? But no one - thorns. You're one of the Dreamfolk, aren't you?"

Despite the time of day, Trahearne was starting to quite literally glow purple with embarrassment. That still didn't quite explain the human's behavior - all the Dreamfolk got free food here, surely enough that no one would need to eat off the ground? - but it seemed that his assumptions had lead him astray anyway.

"I'm very sorry. I thought that you must be, ah, one of the locals."