Tavros nods, though he understands exactly one of those proper nouns. And not even that one very well.

"I don't... really know what Ruuls and those other things are, but it, um, sounds not too different from us. My friend Terezi lives in a, uh, tree, but I know trolls who live in... communal hivestems in cities, or, out in canyons, and in castles and shipwrecks underwater... everywhere and anywhere, I guess."

A pause. He looks a bit embarrassed by all this babbling. Why should this creature give two pungent whipping lumpsquirts about all this?