Wiggly wishes give them more character; it's perfectly fine. Palamedes' strict adherences to aesthetics has nothing to do with the festival, so who knows - maybe the unique shapes will be a big hit.

"How old is 'junior high school'? I've never heard of it." The perks of being from Mercury: no junior high. The cons of being from Mercury: school was everything, all the time, so actually a lot of junior high.

In any case, that question is enough support on its own for when he says, "I've had to turn myself upside down a dozen times, since coming here. It's been a ride. Viktor- have you met Viktor?- throws around words like 'teleportation' like they're nothing at all; maybe his explanations of these things will make more sense to you than mine do." He is, fundamentally, a wizard and not an engineer, after all.