Padparadscha gives a slight, deep laugh at the question, even if the subject itself is worrying. "My species can't hallucinate, so you're safe this time. Unless you want to believe that I'm a hallucination, but it would be a strange thing to imagine a kind of being you've never met before, wouldn't it?"

They'd dreamed of each other, true enough, but that was different - some kind of link, maybe through the Dreaming. An actual hallucination, as far as they're familiar with them from what happened with the bugs, would be a very different beast.

"How's your leg, by the way?"