"Eight... billion?" Jade said, not sure she'd heard the number correctly. She'd been in a city or two that might have thousands of people, but that would mean millions of such cities were on Earth. How did one feed everyone, when a hundred or a few hundred Raksura had to be careful about over-hunting?

Well, that would be a disaster, albeit a preventable one if one kept births in mind.

"I'm a Raksura." Not that she expected him to have heard of it, since he'd said his own race was the only one he knew about.