"- phones and computers? Really?"

"Yes? Some phones have better cameras than others, some have the operating system code available to the public so people are more likely to be able to fix stuff that goes wrong with it, that sort of thing."

"The translation effect is making it sound like you have - science fantasy stuff."

"Maybe our world is higher tech than yours? Cellphones and computers would have been sci-fi stuff a hundred years ago."

"We call it enchantment and mirrors and crystal balls."

"Do yours work by magic? Those sound like things out of a fantasy story."

"- yes, of course they're magic... since it's real life... not a science fantasy story..."

"Ours aren't magic, they run on electricity. I don't think we have magic outside of peoples' heads."

"- so you're actually from a science fantasy world? Or, uh, Riley is from one, and you're from the differently strange world of inside Riley's head -"

"Yeah. Well, we just think of it as the world but it sounds like compared to your world it's science fantasy."

"We can't have technology like that in my world."

"Can't?"

"Nah, doesn't work. If you try to invent, like, precision instruments based on experimentally derived facts about the world, you eventually probably die and your neighbors'll be lucky if that's all."

"Oh. That sucks. At least it sounds like your magic makes up for a lot of it?"

"Yeah, things would be a lot worse if we didn't have magic."

"What's it like, living in that world?"

"I'm not sure how to answer that."

"What sorts of things do each day? What sorts of problem do you have?"

"I'm in university, so I have classes, and homework, and I go to skirmish games, and avoid various campus hazards..."

"I don't really know what university's like in our world either. But I think that sounds pretty similar to what we do at school? What sorts of hazard do you have to avoid?"

"Violent students, wandering monsters, religious proselytizers, that kind of thing."

"Huh. We don't have monsters. What are they like?"

"There's a ton of different kinds - we have a recurring problem with ghouls."

"Ghouls?"

"They're a kind of undead."