After Aurus answered, Hakkyuu didn't immediately go to eat the other half of the fruit slice he'd made, instead just kind of staring for several long seconds.

"Like... The plant people? That plant race off--" he waved the knife a little "--off... somewhere else?"

He didn't know where sylvari were from. He'd never seen a sylvari. He wasn't sure this guy really was a sylvari yet, but he had nothing else to compare to and what reason was there to lie?

"What are you doing out in the desert on your own? You got house-plant friends that are just out somewhere else right now or what?"