If the creatures she's describing look like them at all, he has a hard time being confident that they're not intelligent... or at least with the capacity to be. Then again, maybe she's confusing them for some other form of ape. If that were the case, though, she'd really have no place to be accusing anyone of being unobservant.

Either way, it would be nice if they truly were nothing alike and her species was not actually persecuting sapient beings. He couldn't possibly know enough to be sure that's she's wrong.

"You best not call us 'scavengers' then," he says. "Most of us prefer the word 'human' or 'mankind'." At least he gathers that the Hyur here go by 'human' as opposed to anything else. Himeka had mentioned that the races went by different names on the First, after all.

"And I mean the eldest progenitor of their brood... bloodline. Their family." Maybe it really is culturally different somewhere else. How confusing. "The eldest of the brood we fought was the great wyrm Nidhogg. All of the dragons of his brood were considered his children, as he gave life to the first of them."