"You were...a bird," she repeats with a polite, uncertain disbelief. She seems so sincere about it, but it sounds like something absurd. How does one become a bird? The suggestion of 'magic' does not help, though Mako begins to recall that earlier, other dream. It had been tame compared to this one.

"I'm you," Hitoshi says, nudging her gently. "A lot is possible, especially in dreams." Mako looks down at him and frowns. She supposes that is true. But there is so much context that falls beyond her level of insight, and it does not help that Johnny and this other person, Daine, already have a familiarity that suggests they know each other.

"We have jaegers." Johnny had said they have never encountered real kaiju before; it is doubtful the word will have much meaning to them. So she explains further: "Great war machines, driven by two pilots. Rangers."