"I have none."
"What do you mean, you have none?"
He seemed just a trifle bored. "We gave up names long ago on my world.
We are concerned with more weighty things than our own selves. But I
have a personal problem now," he said, making a peculiar sound that
was not quite a sigh. "Here I am stranded on Venus, my ship utterly
wrecked, and I'm due at the Reisezek Convention in two weeks. You"--he
gripped Koroby's shoulder, and his strength made her wince--"tell me,
where is the nearest city? I must communicate with my people at once."