"Mar Sara? I've never heard of that place before. Is it a city? A continent or a territory or what? You'll likely have a lot of people asking where you're from and what it's like, so I"m graciously allowing you to test your 'where I'm from' speech on me."

He grinned. "I'm an angel. It's very inconvenient for angels to communicate with humans otherwise, so we acquire ourselves these handy bodies so that we have voices and eyes and such."