The Tangle most of your facial features are in the right place

Logically, he can't fault her for assuming he must speak the native tongue. He knows about Trigeda and is clearly from Drageda, after all. But when she starts to speak in the strange, thick language shared by Heda and her wolves, Étoille feels his eyes glaze over. 

A beat of silence falls between them as he waits to make sure she isn't about to speak again. "Apologies," he says, "I do not speak your tongue. I, er, am not a native of your culture." And then he lapses back into silence, waiting for her to repeat herself in common.