So it's all of you, where you're from? Huh. Wonder if our world'll get there eventually.

[Boy, that would raise all sorts of ethical questions, if every single toy in his mass-production world suddenly became sentient. The few tulpas he's met have been such valued possessions, in their rarity, that they weren't in danger of being cast off, but the little spirits also didn't remain after their owners died.]

This might be a sore subject, but if the kids pass on, do your spirits flicker out?