Bruce wasn't an expert at reading the body language of... whatever this thing was, which put a damper on figuring out immediately some of what it meant. Still, if any of the cues stayed consistent, they seemed to suggest Bruce had missed the point. He considered it.

... oh.

"You might have. They're wonderful people, some of them. They're just people. I'm fairly sure the word for what you were referring to was cannibal, or maybe man-eater. It's not common."