Zel shook the proffered hand. "Zelgadiss Graywords. Call me Zel, it's easier to remember. And I understand - my, uh, grandfather used to run a lot of experiments like that." Great-grandfather, actually, but explaining that you'd known your own great-grandfather until you were seventeen tended to bring up a lot of questions.

Of course, so did the fact that Zel had stone for skin, but oh, well.