"How about yourself, friend Ru? Where do you hail from? And, if you do not mind me asking, where did you learn to use a blade?" he adds, gesturing to Ru's wakizashis.
"Yes, never seen blades like that before," Dolgrin says, his attention brought to the strange curved blades by Mesem. "Look useful."
"Hello. Good to meet you. I am Menik. It means 'return'."
Ru lifts one of his paired, sheathed blades and looks at it, almost as if surprised to see it there. "These things? Pish, they're for cutting veggies back home," he says dismissively, though he doesn't do much to cover the jest he's making. "Home. Which is ...." he rotates slightly in the room, then finally points southwest.
"That way, I believe. It's a bit of a hike," he says with a wink.