They do? [ Well, now you've stumped him again. ] They're alive just like you or I. [ His nose wrinkles slightly. ]

Doesn't seem that strange to me.

[ Dal would find that thought really kind. He'd have a pessimistic argument against it on hand, something about how he takes things, doesn't give them. But he might hold it back in Hyunki's presence. Perhaps. Hyunki is a person who makes him feel a little less rain cloudy.

That's a thing, really. ] Are you? [ Dal asks, eyes lightening up a little. It's not a smile, but it's adjacent to one somewhere.

Hyunki is right, they probably would get on. Quietly. ]

I think so. If I didn't know him, I don't think I'd know myself. Not as well as I've come to, anyway.