Her frank questioning earns the slightest amused tug of his lips, but it's gone in an instant. "Not a weird question. I've become fairly used to it by now. I am a drell, though I suspect that means little to you."

That just seems to be the way things are going.

"Most of us live on a planet called Kahje. It is quite far from Earth." He figures it's a safe assumption that she is either from Earth or knows where it is. It's difficult to explain things when you don't know anything of what the other person does or doesn't know.