"It does have magic, but most people don't know it exists," he explains. He'd been one of those right up until he met Thor. He hoped that beer-gutted unicorn was still out there somewhere in the universe.

When she looks so confused about the sock, he raised an eyebrow. Poor kid never received a present before? He tries to ignore what that thought did to his heart. He smiles at her patiently as she looks to him for something- perhaps reassurance or an explanation? He doesn't know. "It's a present. When you like someone and want to be nice to them, you give them a gift to show it."

He nods when she asks if it's food. "They don't have honeycakes here but they had this instead. It's chocolate." Okay, so there was some debate whether white chocolate was really chocolate and it was often one he had between Pepper, but he wasn't going to get into that now. "Just break a piece off and try it."