[rest assured, Ali, he doesn't mind the staring at all. But he does have a little clarification to make, of course—]

Ah, the one in my belly isn't a piercing—it's part of my body. [lowering a hand, he gently presses on the skin near that particular peridot to show how it stretches just beneath the decorative metal trimming.]

Oh... I don't know if I would call it hiding, but my tongue is also pierced? I had it done when I first arrived here.

[It's a simple task to stick his tongue out to let Ali get a good look at it, a little greenish-blue stone capping a simple bar.]