Vyers jumped as Urd suddenly appeared in his vision, and the wine bottle he was holding leapt from hand to hand in Vyers' desperate bid to keep it from falling to the ground. He managed to catch it just in time and stood straight, acting as though the sudden game of one-man hot potato had never occurred just in time to be pulled into the back room.

"While my attitude toward those potions is still one of, ah... dubiousness," he admitted, "they do not have any effect on my being alone with you."