[There's an audible little 'oh!' when Fish reveals themselves, but there's nothing negative about it. In the grand scheme of things, is a purple merperson really that strange? Certainly not, and especially when they're pleasant to talk to and look at.]

That does explain it, yes. I come from a rather bland and boring Earth, where humans are about all there is for sentience; I'd remember if I'd met anyone as striking as you, certainly. [We're not going into the vampires today, that just gets complex...That, and there'd only been one of note in his experience, anyway.] It sounds as though priests are a universal constant, though; I'll go with feeling relieved on that front.

Some of my colleagues...Read our religious texts differently to me, and would have a harder hand in differentiating the good from the bad, however; I just want to reassure people that I'm not so harsh a man that I'll lecture them for not fitting into my world view. Does that clarify any?