He was in much the same position, and he laughed at the exclamation, shrugging, "Hey, what happens at the North Pole stays at the North Pole, right?"
There was another shrug at the question, "It never bothered me, I thought it was pretty cool, always being someplace new, but everybody says that it must have been terrible for me, so I don't know." He grinned at the question, pulling a miniature, quarter-standard-sized deck of cards out of his pocket, giving them a quick shuffle before popping the top card off the deck, flipping it end over end across his knuckles and apparently under the far side of his pinky and into his palm, but when he turned his hand over palm up it was gone.