"People can be real stupid, yeah," Rokuta snorted, squinting into the warm sunlight, "particularly when it comes to faith... putting trust where it ain't gonna get 'em anything, though sometimes people just need hope... Don't mean they can't change, though."

A pause, as an unwelcome 'usually' dropped into his head and he pushed that away. Would rather not think too deeply about that, in all the ways it could mean.

"I guess... Never had to hide much of anything before, either," he looked up at Valdis, eyebrows raised and a tilted grin on his face, "biggest thing I've had to do was keep my hair wrapped, 'cause the colour isn't usual, but that's not hard to do."

At l least here just his hair colour wouldn't be a giveaway to what he was... he still couldn't reconcile the fact that here, the same word was used for something else entirely. And ridden on!