Chuffy looks down to the miniature alchemy lab set up in front of him. "Well, I started experimenting on bits in the scrap heap when I was barely a pup, trying to make bigger fires and impressive explosions. I will be honest with you, I wanted to show my queen how clever I was and have her fall in love with me in return. Unfortunately, she then got her teeth pulled out," Chuffy shudders at this before continuing, "and exiled after you people visited. At the time I wasn't around, I was trying out a new formula for fireworks that I was sure would win her heart. But when she wasn't around... Life in the Seventooth clanhome wasn't really worth living. So I left. I didn't want to have my teeth removed, so I snuck out at night. I wandered around for a while, practicing on all the new things I found until I came across a cave of kobolds. They really wanted to eat me, but I convinced them that I was a cook so if they didn't eat me they could be fed for many nights instead of just one. Then I poisoned them all. In their caves I found a dead longshanks who had a bunch of fancy gear on him, like these," he says, pulling out some beakers and other chemistry paraphernalia, "and some books that had a bunch of words in them." Chuffy pours some liquid into another container, the substance seeming to suck in the heat from the air around it. Stoppering it, he puts it into a little pocket inside his coat. He begins packing up the little alchemy lab, while he continues his story. "At first I was terrified of the words, I was really scared they would steal my thoughts. That's what everyone said they would do. But then I tried using the stuff he had on him and I made bigger and bigger explosions and fires and it was amazing, and I thought that maybe his books would tell me how to improve on my experiments. So I began to look through the books. I didn't get very far, because I couldn't understand any of it. I kept trying and trying to understand it but I couldn't. I had to ask people to help me out and most of the time they were, like, super rude. But eventually, with enough tips here and there, I picked up enough to understand on my own. That's how I got started. It was super amazing." He finishes packing away all his gear, before leaning in towards Miro. "So now that I've told you my tale, it's only fair you tell me about you and your friends right? Especially the husband, ja?"