Lavi sighed too. "Right, this is gonna be fun," he commented dryly. "Albel," he echoed, gesturing at the other man, then pointed to himself. "Lavi. You from around here?" He gestured to indicate the area around them, then raised an eyebrow. This conversation might take a very long time.
Actually, maybe he wanted to take a bit of a shortcut. "Any idea where I can get some of those?" he added, pointing at Albel's clothes and then at himself with a rising inflection on the end of the words that would hopefully be recognized as a question. It tended to be a pretty universal language indicator.