"It's a pleasure to meet thee, too, Dima," says Anzu. "Shake'st thou hands? I usually ask for a very different reason, but here, it so happens many might not know the gesture in the first place, nu?"

For the matter of names, he decides to give up being sneaky — he's clearly still as bad as subterfuge as he's always been — and just explain things to the poor lad.

"As for thy name ... well, nu. I have heard both names in the world I was born in, not too rarely given to children born into my people. The latter more than the former, perhaps, though the former was not uncommon among those what came to us as adults."