Well that changes everything. [ She snorts. ] It is bullshit and you know it is bullshit.
[ Such a thing earns a glare, not- that. Picking at a part of someone they find monstrous. ]
...That is not equivalent in the slightest. 'Addie' is what my father called me until my magic manifested. Afterward it was my full name alone, as though I were no longer his child. Only one other person called me that and he-
no subject
[ Such a thing earns a glare, not- that. Picking at a part of someone they find monstrous. ]
...That is not equivalent in the slightest. 'Addie' is what my father called me until my magic manifested. Afterward it was my full name alone, as though I were no longer his child. Only one other person called me that and he-
[ Her voice catches. Stutters to a stop. ]
It is. Different.