Every single one of those words, except "mountain", means nothing to Stone. This might have been a mistake. "Stone, of Indigo Cloud Court, in the Reaches, on the Three Worlds." See? He can do that, too. Yeah, asking where someone was from without expecting nonsense was probably silly. He'd been sort of hoping planet-level.

But while they're here, he says, shaking his head and smiling, revealing a bit of fang sharper than any human ought to have: "And ask away. Then maybe you can tell me what a bun-bun-ma-ru-new-spay-per is."