@KaiOuSeiJin Thanks for the reply, and your reasoning does make sense.
That said, they just walked through a town filled with all manner of people normally referred to as demi-humans, people like elves and a wide variety of beast-people (rabbits/foxes/cats etc) and our MCs were all acting as wide eyed happy tourists (e.g. Seeing demi-humans had no negative reaction from them). This makes the use of "demi-human" in the tower extremely jarring and confusing. I stand by my previous statement that the word choice there really doesn't make sense to me as a reader.
That said, they just walked through a town filled with all manner of people normally referred to as demi-humans, people like elves and a wide variety of beast-people (rabbits/foxes/cats etc) and our MCs were all acting as wide eyed happy tourists (e.g. Seeing demi-humans had no negative reaction from them). This makes the use of "demi-human" in the tower extremely jarring and confusing. I stand by my previous statement that the word choice there really doesn't make sense to me as a reader.