Adrian adjusted his glasses, nearly knocked off his nose by the impact, and squinted down at the predominately red blob in front of him. A little girl? Maybe? Hopefully her tender young ears hadn't picked up on his language.
'Wow, geez, my bad! Apologies, little lady, didn't see you there. Actually, yeah, I'd love some help-' He eased his pack off his shoulders, let it drop with a heavy [i]whump[/i] and whipped out his brochure again. 'You see, I'm looking for this house. My friend lives there- well, sort of. Not so much a friend as a colleague. And he's not there normally. I guess he doesn't really live anywhere in particular- kind of like me. We're sort of like vagrants, or nomads!' 
His brown eyes flashed with the beginnings of a tangent. If this were a musical, he'd almost certainly have broken into song. 
'Always traveling the Earth, the [i]wilderness[/i], the [i]Great Wide Everything[/i]. Restless and starving, risking life and limb. Forever seeking, craving stories, devouring information as if it were our very [i]sustenance[/i]. [i]Striving[/i] through thick and thin to learn more about the mysterious creatures that made us who we were. Who we [i]are[/i]. Who we're [i]going to be![/i]'

He finished grandly, a bold fist raised to the sky and his glasses askew.
[i]Wow.[/i] He'd fired himself up so much he was out of breath. He slowly refocused on the nonplussed crimson shape before him and gave a slightly bashful chuckle. 'Haha, [i]anyway[/i]. I was wondering if you could help me with this map. I can't seem to make head nor Taillow of it.' 
He held out the pamphlet, damp and smudged, leaving a big dirty thumbprint right on the face of the girl on the cover.