"Astrals are something else where I'm from." Id spares details they don't need right now, like his erstwhile adoptive mother being one. The part about treating mortals as beings to test, study, or use sounds about the same though, odd overlap of primal names aside. Strange how that works out.

He lapses into silence then, save for the heavy thump of boots against wood planks. Is it worth asking? Maybe it's strange or pointless to wonder, but—

"...You have one named Lilith, where you're from?"