[That makes Padparadscha laugh even harder, a rolling, jovial thing.] Androids are the ones built of metal and wire, right? Not quite. I am of the earth.

[It's useful to note the mention of the throat lump, too, even if it sounds strange - and even if they're quite sure they've seen young humans without anything of the sort even if they've called themselves male. But for now, it seems like it may be convenient to make their position clearer.]

I could try to explain my lack of understanding of living things in words, but I think this might be easier.

[After another moment or two, the video feed on the yimo comes on, revealing Padparadscha's upper half. Their skin is white as porcelain, to the point of almost appearing artificial, and their shirt is open to reveal a chest bare of any kind of lumps or human features at all, but full of various holes plugged with what appears to be pink-orange gemstone. Their eyes and hair are the same colour, and though their hair falls around their face naturally enough, it's clear it lacks "strands" so much as being made up of thin slivers of gem that skitter and skim along each other as they move. They might be human-shaped, but it's quite clear they're not human, probably some kind of rock, and visibly genderless.]