That was interesting. Not unprecedented: wizards were used to treating rocks and even whole planets as 'alive', and S'reee remembered a colleague mentioning species made of silicon instead of carbon. But not the norm.

"I'm afraid I cannot help with those things, though I recall that there is some way to retrieve equipment lost in the Dream Width. I haven't used it myself." A motion with her tail approximated a shrug. "My species is a little less able to keep physical objects with us than a bipedal one."