[Likewise it is something of a surprise to not be recognized. While he wouldn't say he has fame or anything of that sort, he does have a reputation and he's well known across the lands back home for his work, what with the traveling he does to smaller villages when he does leave the harbor.]

[Especially if this fellow was also a healer. How interesting.]

[The name he rattles off is unfamiliar, too, so much so that he has a hard time putting his finger on where to begin.]

Her name is Changsheng, and she is my treasured companion and my partner in medicine.

[Which maybe sounds a little wild to say about a snake, but whatever his reaction maybe, it will be funny, probably. Ah, but more importantly-]

That sounds like the name of a great ship, though I don't think I have ever heard such a thing docked at our harbor. Forgive me if I am mistaken, but it certainly sounds like something out of some great adeptal fairy tale.