[He felt the need to do not just a double-take, but a triple-take as this boy was running out of the castle after walking through the bushes like a headless chicken.]

...the what? [He had been sitting there, motionless like a statue the whole time, so it might have been somehow easy to forget that there's a 9-foot-tall monster there!

And that deep, haunting voice didn't make his presence among all these kids any better. An untrustworthy adult, he seemed to be! until the gallery in which Nigel finds out he is, in fact, a kid like everyone else but shhhhh]