Adric listens curiously, and while some of those terms mean nothing to him (what's cultivator and inedia?), he thinks he's got the gist. Spiritual energy isn't really anything, and he assumes it's just a fancy name for something more scientific.

"Oh, no. I'm Alzarian," he answers, shaking his head. "Though I have human friends. We're fairly biologically similar." Well, one human friend, really. But he's met a whole bunch of them.