SWITCHBOARD

[wordsmithery]

If you're deciding to actually use that phone in your room, go right ahead; the Wordsmith is a busy man but he's often around, and he has no real reason not to talk to you, assuming that you do it correctly.

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[stepout]

[ ...Right, okay. Sometime around noon, it's a ring-ring-ringing for you, and she glances at her cracking wrist and switches her phone-holding hand to her left so she doesn't have to pay that much attention to it. ]

Have time for some questions, Wordsmith?

[wordsmithery]

I do, Sympathetic. What is it?

[stepout]

Do you know what's up with...

[ ......does she really want to— ]

No, never mind. [ She doesn't want to know that badly. Well, she does, but it's... a sigh. ] ...Why "Chiyuki"?

[ why give her a name. she doesn't have one, to her knowledge. nona said that. ]

[wordsmithery]

Why not?

[stepout]

[ ...really. ]

I don't have anything against it, but I was just curious about how you came up with it. [ and

there's that weird feeling again, like it's not really something he came up with, but she's not really here for it right now. she did her thinking, and it isn't like it helped any. ]

[wordsmithery]

I didn't.