[ Kallie is tense, putting off just a little visible agitation here despite herself. In all honesty, the temptation to present some sass in defensiveness is strong- the idea of pointing out how, would anything really be so weird in a world where a teenage boy is going by 'Hope'? Alias or not...
But, she's being careful anyway. Mutual exchange of information aside, she thinks it only courteous to try and avoid prompting Echoes knowingly without warning. She's not actually sure, but handing out a full name seems pretty likely to her to be a trigger of some sort for the phenomenon. There's been seemingly less significant things that have set her off in the past, after all.
Which means that if she agrees to hearing this supposed "real" name of Lightning's, there's a pretty strong chance of a pulse, that she'll be feeling that familiar sensation of something at once alien and disarmingly natural shoved into her head within the next few minutes. Just like she had when Sierra had offered to show her the "tattoo" she'd received thanks to something she'd prompted previously, Kallie frowns as she thinks, weighing the perceived pros against... just how unpleasant she finds the experience in general-- and of course, the possibility that whatever she gets will be much more undesirable than she could have even imagined... ]
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But, she's being careful anyway. Mutual exchange of information aside, she thinks it only courteous to try and avoid prompting Echoes knowingly without warning. She's not actually sure, but handing out a full name seems pretty likely to her to be a trigger of some sort for the phenomenon. There's been seemingly less significant things that have set her off in the past, after all.
Which means that if she agrees to hearing this supposed "real" name of Lightning's, there's a pretty strong chance of a pulse, that she'll be feeling that familiar sensation of something at once alien and disarmingly natural shoved into her head within the next few minutes. Just like she had when Sierra had offered to show her the "tattoo" she'd received thanks to something she'd prompted previously, Kallie frowns as she thinks, weighing the perceived pros against... just how unpleasant she finds the experience in general-- and of course, the possibility that whatever she gets will be much more undesirable than she could have even imagined... ]
... We'll just have to see, then. What is it?