Feeling sickened and paranoid now, Lloyd opened his sandwich again, pulling it apart even more carefully than before. He didn't discover anything worse than a couple tomato seeds, though.

...huh. Funny how those didn't seem quite as disgusting as they had before. Even so, he made a face and pushed his own sandwich away.

"If you did that in my world," he said to Ed, "I'd call that a mana technique, like the one I used. Either that, or magic." He eyed his pear. It looked whole and untouched. Would it be safe...? "So what makes the two of you different?"