[Why do people keep trying to point guns at me? ]

[Akin takes a posture that, for humans, would convey non-threatening body language, though he doesn't know if the alien will read it the same way.]

I'm Oankali. We're... not from around here. I'm not really sure how I got here at all.

[Well, technically an Oankali-human construct, but Oankali covered it. Akin could also describe himself as human, but he knew most humans without Oankali genes wouldn't agree, and he'd assume that the alien wouldn't either.]