You're correct. This place is vastly different. It's so unfamiliar ... not even the lifestream has the same feel. You would know that though.

[He doesn't need to tell her more about that. Even if she isn't dead he knows about her connection to the planet and lifestream itself.

If she could talk to this world, that'd have made things a little easier. He could find out what this place wants through her -- though he's sure she wouldn't easily give up the information if she did hold it.]

What about the other lifeforms? The animals? Do they seem natural or are they like us?

[And also displaced?]