She smiles, though, tired and slight a thing as it is. She was a sweet girl, brave, misused as far as she could tell. But sweet. Let her keep that. That she would think to ask where most of the time, from half the people she had met here so far. "Rani is perfectly fine. But..."
Names... well, names are something personal, after all, why she was particular to called Beth 'Elizabeth' or 'Miss Greene'. Even so "... If you wish to call me Lakshmi, that is also acceptable." It's nothing she would extend to anyone else.
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She smiles, though, tired and slight a thing as it is. She was a sweet girl, brave, misused as far as she could tell. But sweet. Let her keep that. That she would think to ask where most of the time, from half the people she had met here so far. "Rani is perfectly fine. But..."
Names... well, names are something personal, after all, why she was particular to called Beth 'Elizabeth' or 'Miss Greene'. Even so "... If you wish to call me Lakshmi, that is also acceptable." It's nothing she would extend to anyone else.