This was almost unnervingly normal. And... pleasant. Though, he supposed, many things were, nowadays.

"She'll probably like it," he said mildly, starting slightly when Guttle rolled onto his back.

"It's like small children re-imagined how animals should look and behave..." he murmured, feeling the need to make some comment to the absolute ridiculousness of all of this. He reached out and continued to pat the Spheal, who was equally round on the bottom as he was on the top.