"Yeah-" The way the teen said it made him cringe internally, of course, Al was always human by their standards but spend enough time on enough alien planets where human isn't necessarily the default and the word starts to take on new meaning. Besides, trying to explain the situation in a number of instances had gotten so complicated when Ed hadn't wanted to be so candid about that transmutation in the first place.

He took a step back when the kid jumped off the stool, hands lifting defensively as it sunk in how big of a mistake he'd just made. "You live with the guy, haven't you talked about this?" He didn't want to be the one to tell him, not when the teen was going back to make the Ed in the Quarantine deal with that fallout.