-- Ah, you know, I don't know if you've titles for me to use.

[ That might sound like it comes out of nowhere. But he still says it, because he realizes he was about to call them "ma'am" or "lady" or something similar. they struck him as being something of a courtly person, despite their appearance - no, perhaps because of it? How they dress, how they carry themselves. Perhaps "Sir?" Ah well- ]

But, truth told, I cannot know if it is the item or not. None of us really can, unless there's some one who was here from the realms I know and had magic to test it, eh?