[Dusty isn't sure whether he wants to try one of the potions or not, so he's been loitering around the demonstration watching the magic tricks and people watching as others try the potions. It isn't that he has anything against potions, like if one of the witches he knows gave him one, he'd take it without question - it's that he doesn't know these people yet. So if one of them gives him something he hates, well, he's kind of screwed without any magic of his own or any real way to heal poison or magic effects.

Having watched a tall, handsome man take a potion, he's switching his attention to someone else who's just sort of starting to float off the floor looking delighted and surprised, and maybe he's rethinking not trying any of the potions, when someone speaks right close by him.

Blinking, Dusty turns his attention to the person talking and realizes it's that tall, handsome man from before. It's not that someone talking to him is surprising, not even that it was someone he'd just been watching and thinking about, it's more what he says.]

No, you're not the only one, believe me. I'm like, almost regretting having taken the deal. I know it'll be good in the end but, man...