6th September 2005, 9:27 PM
Well actually in SOE you got transported to an artificially created world made by a scientist. The dog was chewing some wires and so he has actually "bonded" with the world, so his form changes based on what part of the world he is in. The boy doesn't have that bond, but he does learn alchemy so he's got that going for him.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)