[It's both out of genuine curiosity, and to try to delay answering the question. He knows why he's completely ignorant when it comes to things like this, but how do you admit something like that without having to explain... Everything? He could just say he was isolated, but there's still the question of why or how.
He can't keep lying to everyone, he knows, or giving out half-truths. People have already tried to poke holes in his story, but... There's too much shame in what he is to risk people knowing the truth.
He sighs, rubbing a hand over his face before he sighs.]
I... Suppose the easiest way to explain things would be that I don't think I had an upbringing that is typical for humans - or any other sort of mortal.
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[It's both out of genuine curiosity, and to try to delay answering the question. He knows why he's completely ignorant when it comes to things like this, but how do you admit something like that without having to explain... Everything? He could just say he was isolated, but there's still the question of why or how.
He can't keep lying to everyone, he knows, or giving out half-truths. People have already tried to poke holes in his story, but... There's too much shame in what he is to risk people knowing the truth.
He sighs, rubbing a hand over his face before he sighs.]
I... Suppose the easiest way to explain things would be that I don't think I had an upbringing that is typical for humans - or any other sort of mortal.