"It's hard to explain," Keman admitted with a shrug. "I didn't even know that he could do that until last night. I'm not elvish, so I don't know how it works, but he gave me the energy he normally uses for his magic, strengthening mine. It made sense, even if I didn't have much of a choice in the matter. I've got a little skill with a knife, but Valyn is much better than I am at actual hand-to-hand combat. I mostly rely on my offensive magics to get me through a fight."

He turned to the child. "I'm sorry...I haven't heard of Radical Edward. I don't even know what a 'computer hacker' is."

Maybe it was a colloquialism in his/her world for "complete psychosis"?

At any rate, he/she didn't seem to be anything more than a regular human, as far as he could tell. Renji and Rukia on the other hand...well, he was withholding judgment. They looked young, and human, but...