"....So the cat is a differ'nt thing? But still all mushed in with ya like a symbiont or a parasite or somethin'?" He just looks flummoxed, but he is trying to figure out what all this is.

"I'm Yondu. Yondu Udonta. An' I'm a Centaurian." He offers 'cause, usually, people wonder why he's blue. Might as well put that right out there.