Weird magic? What is she—oh. Strange knows what she's talking about. He continues dancing but looks briefly guilty before he launches into an explanation.

"If you ask her, the Ringmaster can send you home for a period of time. I chose to do so—and don't worry, I was only missing from the carnival for a day or so. But in the time I was back in England, one of my fae cursed me."

Rita's probably going to ask him a billion questions about that. But, Strange can at least head off the most important one first and foremost. "It doesn't affect me in the carnival. I already know the faerie phrased the curse lazily, I believe he phrased it so lazily that it only affects my world and the parts of faerie that surround it."