"Yeah, um. Please, please don't - " He looks at her in helpless frustration. That name is flying right over his metaphysical head right now, but that's really the least of his worries. "Don't bow, um. I was human until, like - a week ago." It's an interval of time he picked at random because, as it occurs to him far too late, he doesn't know what day it is.

"This isn't the first time it's happened, I just - happened to be in the, in the wrong place at the, uh. Wrong time." Sure, except the Rift probably chose that place and time so, really, that's probably not what happened at all, but how else is he meant to explain it?