"Well, come along if you like, it's not a mystery." He makes his way over to one of the dart games, a row of giant stuffed... well, they could be pandas, if you'd only heard of pandas and never seen one - along the back of the booth.

"I used to beat Mitchell at darts, back home, now and then," he commented, offhand, and he paid his coins to play.

And what are carnival games for, if not showing off for your date a little.