"Really? Isn't that fascinating." Then again, if these "worlds" their rescuers spoke of were simple prime material planes, layered one atop the other, perhaps it wasn't so surprising to find similarities.

"Large, ugly, smelly and rather stupid monsters? The ogres, that us. Not the Oni. As you say, they seem...polite." Though all this talk of bonding apparently didn't mean what he was hoping it would be from big muscular attractive men. "Interestingly enough, the description I'd heard of the supposed ogre mages isn't far off from these Oni. Large, but not as large as most ogres. Blue of skin. And more intelligent. Perhaps there's something to the tales. Truth to tell, I'd always dismissed them."