Mm... so your understanding of the world has moved beyond the immediate and at least partially into the celestial. [The dialect and clothing made him wonder if this would be a civilization pushed back a few centuries from the present day, but maybe he was wrong about that.]

I am. Thank you for indulging my curiosity. [He nods politely.] We'd simply call my kind "humans" where I'm from. Sentient races outside the supernatural are a mere fantasy for many, unfortunately. But I think this is an awfully lucky coincidence in the midst of all this chaos.

There truly is a lot out there that we don't know, isn't there?