"... I have not heard of this bread." But it would be confusing. More confusing than aer and air, probably. You don't eat either of them. "It is the name of the basic power of life to my world, or rather what that basic power has become. It can be harnessed into magic, and is how Spirits are formed. A mind and an element to rule over."

Duke doesn't pause in his gentle belly scratches. He doesn't feel any claws, so there's no reason to stop.

Ah, another thing he isn't familiar with. "Do they have something to do with fire? I know of a combat arte that is titled with 'phoenix', and it it involves flame, but that is the only thing familiar to me using that word."