"Malefi-who?" He had no idea who she was talking about. "No, we don't know who made it. It's been around a while, apparently." They had some ideas about the place, but they didn't know anything definite, and he didn't feel like explaining anything so complicated.

"Yeah, if you wait around long enough, you'll go right home. I don't know about any curse." This was the first he'd heard of any curse. Probably something from this girl's world. Not something he had to worry about. "Unless you mean the scarcity of Japanese food. That's kind of a curse."