"Understandable habit. Most people don't live the kind of life that leads to preparing to be dropped in different worlds. We'd love to see the poetry at some point, though."

"Sure! Maybe once we sort things out a little more though."

Audrey stretches and hums a little note. "New world new world off on an adventure~" she sing-songs. 

Sable tries to catch the tune and continue it, "An adventure together with new friends~."

Audrey grins and snaps her fingers, and tries to carry the tune along, though it takes a moment for her to come up with words. "Adventure adventure as we go along, adventure adventure and so we sing this song, we're cuties together in a world of friends, on an adventure that never ends~" 

She giggles. "That's life, right? At least, it is if the people in charge get their way and figure out how to solve aging." She bobs her head from side to side and smiiiiles. 

"Yes please. That'd be great. I think some people here are working on it too. It's complicated, though. Fairy-type trainers tend to age a tiny bit slower, so that's one angle they're looking into, I think? But I dunno, it's not my specialty."

"They've figured out a way to preserve people after death so their neurons are intact a decade or so ago, but so far there've been no successful revivals of humans. One thing to preserve the body so it's theoretically possible to revive, another thing to actually reverse the process. I think they're doing testing on animals - do you have animals here or is everything smart enough to talk to?"

"No animals, just pokémon. Well, there are like... non-pokémon bugs, but basically nothing bigger than that. Some species of pokémon don't get people-smart without training-ish attention, while some start out that smart, and all of them can get at least as smart as a five-year-old. On average, they can get as smart as humans do, and some can get a lot smarter. People used to do casual pokémon testing in science, but nowadays they treat it the same way as testing on humans, with consent and all that."

Then she frowns for a moment.

"Alts," Maya huffs.

"Yeah. Sane scientists do consent forms."

"We have... significantly less smart non-humans than you have, up to human size and beyond. Some of them are pests, some of them are pets, some of them we, uh, eat. To what degree the animals in my world count as people is hotly debated - there are some that are close, but almost none of them can use language like a human can, and none of them or us have psychic powers to communicate with either. We're trying to dial down the use of animals for food, but people are used to eating meat, culturally, so it's a slow process to change that."

Sable nods. "Yeah, that's understandable. I think having pokémon instead of animals made us rush synthetic meat a bit faster than y'all did, because we're both very aware that some pokémon have to eat meat, and aware that they all either are or have the potential to be people. So we had to figure it out quicker. Maybe if we figure out how to get our worlds talking, we can share the tech."

"I definitely hope so. Gains from trade, and all!"

"Yeah!"

After another moment of cheerfully walking along, Sable asks, "I wonder if you'll lean more battles or contests or something else, after you get settled in here.":

"Hmmm. Tell me about the differences?"

"Well, some people try to make a living on the battle circuit, pitting their teams against others' for fun and competition. There are bets between trainers over the battles, prizes for beating gym leaders, more prizes for competing in the League tournaments, and so on. Contests are more competitions of style and flair more than real fights, though they do include a stylized battle portion too. There's a whole separate circuit for contests, with prizes and payouts as well. On top of that, there's a small stipend that trainers get just for being registered trainers and staying active, because every active trainer is helping to make the wilderness less dangerous by catching pokémon and treating them well, forming strong bonds with them. Some trainers work as rangers, maintaining the routes between cities and helping to take care of wild pokémon populations and manage disasters. Some non-ranger trainers participate in disaster response, too. Gym leaders and a region's elites and champion all help out with that a lot too."

"I think I could go either way, honestly. It probably depends which one my pokémon like best!"

"Fun! We'll have to see what your swablu thinks after we catch one."