Ailey shot him a look while the ship lurched forward, uttering a "HOLD ON!" while they were already blasting away and into the atmosphere and rapidly moving into open space.

"What the hell happened?" she asked, glancing at the instrument panel before swiveling her chair around to look up at him.

It would?

And if you aren't human then what are ya?

Catch-all term for humanoid races that look like us. Least, where I come from.

Well what I was tryna say is am I innuendoin' or are YOU innuendoin'. [Saying it "In-you-en-DOO-in"]

"Never heard of Earth."

Well your head looks about normal-sized for a human.

"Sounds like a skill issue to me. Where have you been, some backwater outer rim world?"