"Good to hear it. Yeah, the magic is pretty sweet... not something that exists outside of fiction back home, so I'm pretty much living the dream."

Castle went over to the broomsticks, picking one of them up and testing its weight. It certainly didn't seem like he could fly on this thing, and he suddenly wondered if this somehow wasn't one big joke- the game, the fact that he was on a team despite very much not being from a magical world...

"...reading the rules first would have helped, huh? And maybe asking for a refresher on broom-riding." Still, he doggedly mounted the broom, straddling it in the stereotypical cartoon witch fashion, and much to his surprise he rose a few inches off the ground, giving a whoop of surprise.