[He'd seen a number of others with similar... construction? Similar appearance, anyway. Regardless, he had no name to put to the shape. Now that he does, it... still isn't helpful, actually. Ah.]

It's not familiar to me. I'll need to find a source of more in-depth knowledge, this place seems to operate on entirely different rules than the magic of our world.

[... Or was it only his world, in her eyes? That phrasing might have been a mistake. Best not to dwell on it.]

That may explain why we were 'pulled' into these native forms.

[Not that his current body was noticeably different from the old one, aside from the pulse and the lack of a knife wound.]