“Idon’t talk about it casually,” it wasn’t his fault certain people were able to figure out a secret he was trying so hard to keep hidden. Besides, comparing ‘magic’ and science was impossible because ONE DIDN’T EXIST.
He didn’t care what the police saw — he needed to see this magic for himself before he would even begin to consider that it might be possible. And even then, he’d write it off as an elaborate trick.
“You’re not going to let this go, are you?”
“Well, if you had to tell me while I was bigger that people could shrink into kids, and that it’s happened to you, and I didn’t believe you whatsoever, but no real proof exists for you at the time to try and convince me, would you just let it go? Jeeze, you should feel lucky shrinking is the only really weird thing you’ve had to deal with… Just for a few words from my experiences: Robots, a pirate, a witch, and a certain chibified detective who kicks soccer balls from hell that shoot out sparks when he kicks them… “