Your brother is a bear... Was this before or after arrival?

[ No sense in assuming either way? Though that does sound strange. Though given all different monsters around, perhaps it isn't much of a stretch after all.

Then the boy mentions a dream and she wonders if that is all that it could be. Could they merely be dreamers passing through? ]

If this is all but a dream then I would wonder whose dream it is. Though I cannot say that any of this constitutes as "normal."