"Those of the Chiss more often go by their rank, and or family, than by their corename," he tells her. "It is... a kind of respect, to that which is larger than us. But the simple fact is that not every species has that attitude, or expresses it in a similar way. Furthermore, we are no longer in Chiss space."

Not that he had been, quite, on the planet where they abandoned him.

He inclines his head. "Mindfang, then," he says.