[He peered at the offered hand warily for a moment before reaching out and taking it and shuffling to his feet with a quietly-mumbled 'thank you.' He took a moment to dust himself off, discreetly eyeing the places he knew his lines were fastest to appear to make sure they were out before pushing back his hood. Luckily, the moment gave him a chance to try and come up with some kind of answer.]

I'm ok. I'm just...not from...Earth. [Even admitting to that made him give a little cringe. They were in space, so that shouldn't be a shock, right?] There aren't many people where I'm from. I don't think anyone will know it.

[And if they did, and they were anyone but a very select number of people, admitting that he was from No Man's Land and giving them a chance to recognize his face could have, from what he's been able to glean from eavesdropping on the adults' hushed whispers back home, very drastic consequences for him.]