[Ready though Demeisen is to judge the idea of inanimate objects being mysteriously, spiritually conscious, he has no particular desire to get upset over it. Matt’s apology is met with a shrug, easily and without rancour.]

Apology accepted. You’re hardly alone in that, regardless. Only encountered one person so far who’d even left his home planet, and his civ had barely gone beyond its home star.

[Total backwater, sounded like. He’d say Matt’s probably never even heard of it, except like all humans Demeisen’s yet encountered here, he has the same physiognomy as that first guy, so actually it might be the exact same place.]