"It isn't a lie, so much as a type of architecture you'd be unfamiliar with. As to what I'm hiding, it's a little necessary. Or it was before I got brought here. Given how this is going over -" He gestures to the chicken, which is still staring at the ground like it's the newest season of Stranger Things, "I'm thinking it might still be a little necessary. It's not what I look like that's quite as important as what I do. And I'm not even an Architect, anymore, really, more of an ... afterlife coach."

He gives the Doctor a critical once-over of his own. "A hider knows a hider, too, you know. A human would've tried to kill that thing, no matter what their moral imperative was. They'd feel too threatened."