[stop to look around to see if the kids are listening]
I shall tell of the time I bested a Jenoine at sorcery.
[pause -- wait, do you know what a Jenoine is?]
A Jenoine is a inhuman being, who, long ago, modified my own people, creating the Houses by mixing human genes with those of various animals, and who were driven off our world and kept off by the gods and the Imperial Orb.