"People have to hide their magic where you're from?" He sounds utterly baffled, which distracts him from 'swamp magic.' Labenda turned him against swamps for the rest of time, but he's willing to push past that, because cooking with swamp magic clearly does not equate to to things tasting of swamp.

"That's ridiculous. You can't swing a stick without hitting a magic-user in Wildemount. Where the hell would they hide?" It's hard to imagine a place with magic where the wizards and such weren't a little bit thick on the ground. "You can barely do anything decent without a little bit of magic."