"That is the easiest way to think of me. He's only a politician, after all." With gentle humor and teasing. "I've been given to understand that we have been summoned to help prevent the very destruction of wonder and imagination itself, and that our homes are unable to be reached while we are here."

Jack hoped that why they were unable to reach home for their home's protection. Considering what the Holiday Towns did, he would have come to help even were the need not quite so dire. But that something could destroy imagination itself... It did not bring a pleasant shiver to his bones at all.