[ Rhy is aware of the concept of machinery, and beyond that, the very human concept that spans across worlds of people just... talking to things that can't understand, carts and boats and things like that. But he blinks and shakes his head, not because he doesn't get the idea of what Julie is trying to communicate, but because he doesn't believe it's true. Not in this case. ]

Yes, I take your meaning, but--

Magic may not breathe and talk the way a human does, but it is, in its own way, living.

Just as the Singularity is.