"Plaid and pancakes," Pavel repeats, brows furrowed curiously. "Is zat some kind of american tradition?" It's not one he's ever heard of, at least. But America is very big and has a lot of weird things it does just because.

"I heard a little bit about the ghosts." That's a lie; he heard a lot, mostly ridiculous sounding things from his friends. Ghosts? Really? "Wery spooky," He adds, emphasizing it with a dumb spooky ghost noise.