Aliens. Well, in a way that makes sense to him. After all, monsters are from the moon. But that isn't quite the same thing he thinks. And they've done a lot to clean up Esthar since then.

"I think my question answered yours. Yeah, I was. War orphan. Sort of. My parents were killed for being rebels, trying to free my home town. They were also deserters from the occupying army because they couldn't stand how their country attacked my home."

She seems the sort who could handle that information with no problem.