"Had them, more than we do now. There's two around, maybe a few more?" It's been a while since he's been alive. "But our world had a run-in with tech too. The magic users didn't like it, the two sides clashed, and the stuff that came after led to everyone deciding machines were bad, and anything to do with them made their life worse."

He shrugs - as if that's a situation to shrug over.

"Not everyone agreed with that, but people who didn't got shunned, and no one liked them. But life's doing better now - people are more open to machine these days. A little."