"Oh, is that not a custom ... of course it isn't! I have to stop assuming people know the same things." Rinoa will get used to it eventually. She smiles. "It's a thing you do when you say something that you don't want to come true. You knock on wood. So like, I said things could be worse. And if things then got immediately worse, it feels like saying that could be part of why it would. Even if it isn't."

Rinoa chuckles. "Wow I never realized how superstitious that was. The general idea is, I say something I don't want to happen, and to make sure it doesn't happen, I knock on wood. Which ... makes no sense." She can't help it, she laughs. "I don't think I've explained that out loud before, what a weird custom."