[How to explain that to someone without the background? Kurama makes a quietly thoughtful sound.] Artificial people, in this case created with steel, electricity, and magic.

Yes... I think many of us wish the same. It's difficult, being separated from most or all of the people you care about. [It's quiet and a little sad. He has two of the people he loves with him here, but his friends, his mother... Kurama misses them painfully.

At least discussion of animals is lighthearted.]

Most of the animals we've encountered here have been at least slightly different from anything any of us are accustomed to. Though it's hard to say how much of that is normal and how much is things that have been twisted by the break in reality.

[Hey, normal is something different for every world.]