"Pleasure to meet you, too, Spinel," Nita returns.

"I'm just from Earth; can't say I've heard of the Gem Homeworld, though," Much as it did answer what species Spinel was, "But there's still a lot of worlds I've never heard of or visited; the multiverse is vast..."

Nita tapers off - then, because there are still more questions to ask:

"What's it like, there? The parts you like best?"