He answered the questions as best he could, being polite and not taking offense as he waited. Anything he couldn't answer was with an apology about not being sure how to give an understandable answer, though several questions he dodged with that rather than try to answer, like where he was from. He just worked on keeping his eyes on theirs, though it was marred by frequent glances, which he concealed by going further and staring at the ground, as if trying to come up with a good answer.