The answerer of your questions

Even though, in retrospect, the solution he was presented with was just the most logical conclusion possible, Seth was still having trouble wrapping his head around the actual concept of the thing that he was staring to intensely at, as if he was watching an alien stroll across the street in front of him.

Honestly, that might have been a little more believable than this, I mean what are the odds? 

Walking through the market before him, without a care in the world, was a man. This man was normal in almost every way, except from of course the fact that he was only 2 foot tall and made entirely of clay.

But other than that, perfectly normal.