"How is it I look the part of the villain exactly?" He grins, though, and nods. He'd been called far worse, of course, and better. "I've always been a trickster, it's true. In fact-" as he spoke, he formed an illusion of himself that seemed to pause for dramatic effect while he simultaneously cloaked himself in a veil of silence and invisibility and moved behind her, his illusion still smiling charmingly, until his actual form was safely behind her, at which point the illusion dissolved as did his invisibility and he finished his sentence, "-I'm rather good at it."

He cleared his throat before adding, "as for cooking, I'm sure we can figure something out. How hard can it be?"