His palps move away from his face, showing his smile. "You can try to touch one if you want? Gently."

The eyes, should they try, have a quality to them like soap bubbles, like a very tiny amount of liquid stretched around a lot of air to make something that appears solid. They're a bit sturdier than soap bubbles, but all but the lightest contact makes them close back into lines and then disappear. This doesn't distress Julien, though.

"Yeah, that was a stop that went very sideways! See, the whole world was sealed off from the rest of the multiverse, but our dear leader either didn't know or decided to visit anyway, I really don't know how it works. Somehow that meant that when we managed to get in we were all changed to be beings that would fit in that world. I think. I'll level with you, kid, it was weird."