"Sure! I would be happy to teach biology, medicine, and torture at your seminary!
Though you should know that I don't have any accreditation and I'm entirely self taught. Is that fine?"
"The table is too big to be carried out of the room. But the rest can stay! They look delightful."
Big smile.
When everyone else has left, he resorbs the table but leaves everything else intact.
"I guess it's just, people didn't really seem like they wanted to be there? Or, like...they looked very serious about it. They didn't look like they were having a fun dinner, more like...undergoing a trial."
"Okay, that makes sense. So, where should I put the other food? And is it fine if I create other things too, like sugar syrup and milk? I can put them in ivory boxes."