[ This is a reason he'll try to buy an addition to the house... He offers a slant of a smile to his new companion. ]

A cleansing spell. I've found it pretty versatile, with time and practice.

[ Marianne had taught it to him to alleviate the effects of his terrible allergies, but Yuri has an abundance of fred time here with which to practice. He'd ended up finding that cleansing had all sorts of handy applications, small and mundane as they might appear next to a flashier spell.

It does wonders for blood, even, which has proven a greater convenience here than he'd first imagined. He supposes, despite lulls like this, that they're fighting a war just the same. A deeply peculiar one, but even so. ]

I'd be a terrible liar if I made a claim like that, considering I was pulled to this realm from a military encampment.

[ The odors are many and pungent. This very polite, muddied fellow beside him, at his respectable distance, doesn't hold a candle to any of that. Yuri simply remembers how much he hated being caked in dirt, how it practically itched through his clothing. He can tell from how this fellow carries himself that he likes the experience no better than he did. ]

But it's not a taxing spell by any means, I can assure you.