[Certain people need to appreciate the level of self-restraint it took not to respond to that first bit of bracket narration with 'that's what she said'.]

A species, yes- humans and monsters are the only two sapient species in my world that we're currently aware of. There are quite a few different varieties of monster, of course, we're less limited by physical form than human are, but we're all fundamentally the same species.

[She's proud of her people, she certainly doesn't mind talking about them.]