His response is immediate and completely enthusiastic. "Absolutely! Do you know, I haven't seen a single elf since I arrived? Not one!"

When he laughs, a punctuation to that sentence, it's a little manic. Those student loans are murder. Wally claps his hands together with a resounding sort of smack, rubs them, then extends one to her. "Wallace Sheldon Everett, Wizard, PFD, HTPF, DtL, and all around lovely person to know. Call me 'Wally'."