[He nods, trying to focus on talking about the food and not how he still feels all warm and awkward]

Yeah, totally! The priests didn't used to let me do the decorated egg thing, 'cause like, I used to make them for the feast of spring when I was a little kid and hadn't learned about Christianity, but they lifted the ban a couple of hundred years ago and said it's okay as long as it's properly blessed! I'm glad, 'cause they're way fun to make.