[color=red]"Uh...I think I'll pass, pal."[/color]

He smiled sheepishly and politely held up a hand to decline the proffered drink. The smell alone made his head swim. Instead he pulled a canteen from his back rigging and drank from it, nevermind how a man made mostly of fire could drink water.

[color=red]"Where do you hail from, uh, Gonad? I come from a place called Earth. Lush, green place. Kinda like this. We got seas 'n lakes 'n mountains 'n things."[/color]