"He's a right gentle fellow. A firbolg, if you ever met one of them. We ain't got such where I'm from. It's all just folk like us -- humans, I mean." There's a brief pause as she considers that. "If you're a human? Sorry, still getting used to things. I know we don't always look like what we're meant to be outside ADI."

But he'd looked human enough within the walls of the apartment complex, and that was usually a good indication.