It is a Zoroa, but it does not know why it is Zoroa.
It's a little ball otter, but it doesn't know why it came to this world.
So it is such a strange time-travel story. Soraya knows that the little ball otter is a human being, but the little ball otter does not know that Soraya is a human being.
Yes, the little ball otter doesn't understand Soraya, and Soraya doesn't understand the little ball otter either. He just knows that it is a human being...