[Yep. Totally real. It even winked at her as she grinned. The marks on her cheeks looked like they were tattooed there, thankfully, rather than a skin pigment.]

Quite so, and pretty much the same way you did. I was asleep one night and woke in the midst of a nightmare dragged through the forest to end up in this quaint little forest town with all the lovely little monsters and horrors.

[Drip. Drip. There goes the sarcasm faucet.]

My name, if I did not say it a moment before, is Vira-Lorr. I'm an Onelthes.