"I like Shepard," he wrinkles his nose a little at the title. Commander was definitely some kind of military, but he wasn't sure exactly where that fit in, among the ranks he was used to. Someone who gives commands, obviously, so it had to be near the top, right? Besides, it wasn't like he'd ever asked for any of the titles he'd ended up with, and he certainly didn't see a need for people to use them for him.

It takes him somewhat off-guard, that she already knows something of the place he calls home. Just how many copies of the same world were there? And how different? He wouldn't even know where to guess Shepard is from, by appearance alone, other than nowhere he's been to.

"Ah... I move around a lot," he hedges, not terribly well. It's not easy to just blurt out that you've been shunned by basically every town and sect for as far as you've ever traveled.

"I grew up in Yunmeng, at Lotus Pier, ended up in Yiling for a while, and..."

Since being brought back to life, he couldn't say he really had a home, at least, not until he'd met up with Lan Wangji. But both Lan Zhan had told him that they ended up in Cloud Recesses, for a time, together. If their families really were joining, that's where he'd call home, right? Though if Lan Qiren heard that he'd probably pass out from qi deviation.

"...and then Gusu."