"I'll be fine. Was just bringing my new little toy home." The smoking actually seemed to help him oddly enough. He relaxed a bit more and the air came easier, even as he exhaled the grey smoke. There was still the matter of the sweat that drenched his brow and that had made his shirt stick to his torso, but he didn't seem worried as he tilted his bowler hat to the girl with a smirk.
"Ahh newly christened, then. Well, I am Tabbart Crumb. It is my pleasure." he was always kind to little lambs, never let them see your teeth, his mother had said, not until you were ready. Of course his mother had been fairly deranged! Still...never hurt to be nice.
"Have you spoken with our ringmaster yet?" He had to see she had truly been accepted before he made proper introductions.