A quiet amused smile. "Well, there is nothing I can do to prove myself, hm? So you will just have to take my word for it." But his eyes, for a moment, are so very old. "But the world is wide, and the... universe, I believe I have heard it named? Is wider still, or so I am given to understand. I had never seen a little one like you, before either." He tips his head at Rhythm. "Or talking ponies. Not til now, in any case."