Ah, a place known as "Trench". A world where individuals arrived as squid, and were transformed back into their human forms during a process known as "waking".

[A beat.] Yes, I'm ah, well aware of how that sounds haha.

[Like crazy talk. To say the least. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't lived it.]

Oh, King? Are you royalty, then? I apologize yet again, I was unaware...