... you're not the first to tell me that, also.

[ More thinks back to what he saw in that dreamscape school. Fukuda is human as any other, but the gulf between him and his classmates could not have been wider. ]

Nobody in my world thinks of themselves as 'human', but... people will be people, regardless of their tribe, won't they? They will put up dividing walls because they feel like the categories keep them safe. The mind is consumed by anxiety just so easily...