"You know what planets are?" That's a surprise, almost as much as him being a talking animal in the first place. The Nexus brings people from all sorts of places in all sorts of shapes, but Jake doesn't have a lot of experience with the ones who don't walk on two legs. "And sorta, it's a moon, if you wanna get pedantic."

Jake shrugs at the latter statement, ears perking forward in mild interest. He still hasn't recognized what Manny is, the knowledge irrelevant to him when he'd been a kid going through overcrowded schools, and especially not when he was a soldier. "What makes y'say that? You could be from way after. Or you come from a completely different Earth; there's a lotta those around here."