Kinner nods. "I think I might be able to help, too. Something happened a while back, something very small, but it made me able to, uh, see weird things. Not bad things, necessarily, but weird things. I'm not sure if it's any use with the Thing, but two heads are better than one. I have a treatise on the creature if you'd like to borrow it."

"Oh, you've been no trouble at all. Quite the opposite." He's happy to turn the subject back to the holidays. He's there to have fun, after all, and forget about the Thing for a little while. "I brought some salted cod and oysters, sir. I run a fish shop in the Plaza. Kinner's Kippers. That's where you can usually find me."