"It's all right. Not everybody's had the opportunity."

He doesn't know Shrieky's life, or his experiences. It might chafe at Jae to be expected to hate humans (and it does), but he's not going to try and shove rainbows and sunshine down everyone's throats. He's just going to do his own thing, and deal with it.

"And thanks. Hopefully I'm not too weird to go to the beach with sometime?"