They're nothing like monsters. [Emphasis on the nothing. Enough people back home thought they were like monsters, he doesn't want that to be a thing in the afterlife as well.]

And they look... A lot like humans, only with fur. And more beast like faces-- [Is that helpful at all? He's trying to think of another way to explain it when he's suddenly caught off guard by the next thing Jean said.] I can transform, yeah, I'm half Leimornean after all.