“Please, friends, talk tell me tales of your aardvark absent adventures,” the King of the Domes says.
“We’ve been meaning to come tell you about the pixie situation,” Avi says to his old friend.
“Did the world end over here, too?” Aquila asks.
But the King of the Domes focuses in on his third guest — the Mayor of Nox Islia. “But first, what where which who is this?”