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Heh.

[He's looking forward to that part of the evening, but he can wait, too.]

Hope we can experience a lot of other things together, too.

[It's said earnestly, or as earnestly as Boone gets. They reach Lust's home and Boone lets go of her hand so she can open the door.]

[a_sin_for_him]

If fate is kind.

[Or whatever force rules this world.]

Though if there is one thing I've learned in all my time here, it's not to put things off or wait.

[Lust peers about the downstairs, reasonable sure the house will be empty but cautious just the same. Even so, she leads the way up to her room quickly. She just prefers her privacy in these matters.]

[Her room is large, elegantly decorated in lavenders and grays, a few Pokemon napping about and the Espurr family tucked into the windowseat. There are two comfortable looking plush chairs by the other window, the one overlooking the street.]

Make yourself comfortable.

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[Boone makes himself comfortable in one of the seats, glancing out of the window. This seems kind of serious, so he wonders what Lust wants to talk to him about.]

What's on your mind?

[He looks up at her from behind his shades, open to talk with her.]

[a_sin_for_him]

Oh, nothing much in the grand scheme of things.

[It's automatic for Lust to sit at her vanity to let down her hair. But once she's sat she's reminded she has no hair left to let down, and can only fluff up her painfully short curls. She sighs and turns to Boone, crossing her ankles beneath her form hugging red dress.]

It's silly, really, but to me... You realize, of course, that 'Lust' isn't my original name - no human baby is named Lust.

[The details of her former life she's yet to share, only the broadest strokes. Not quite human the last go 'round, but human originally, some of the unpleasantness. It's still difficult to speak on.]

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It's not silly if it's important to you. Remember that.

[Said gently, but seriously. He doesn't want Lust to feel like anything she cares about could be interpreted as silly.]

And... yeah, I figured. Didn't think asking was a good idea, though.

[a_sin_for_him]

I feel like some of the things that are important to me are silly. Especially personal things. In my last life...we weren't supposed to have personal feelings. They were a manifestation of weakness.

[Homunculi weren't human, they didn't have human emotions, human desires, human wants. Any shadow of such was just a flaw, something to be erased.]

It's...a complicated thing. I didn't even know it myself until strange events here led me to remembering speaking it under the effects of some magic. I...honestly don't even know if it's my proper name, I just know it's what I used to be called. I don't go by it, I don't offer it to many.

But...I feel you should know it. I'm not so young an naive as to think this is some passing fling between us, I know where this goes.

[If ever given long enough.]

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[Boone would like to think this could go somewhere more. He's not in love yet if only because he's so frightened of losing Lust the moment it happens, but he know that one day he could see himself marrying her.]

You can tell me. I'm not gonna tell anyone.

[He offers her a small smile.]

Not like anyone but you calls me Craig, right?

[a_sin_for_him]

No, I know you wouldn't share it with anyone else.

[And she doesn't even refer to him as 'Craig' to anyone. That's...private. An intimate thing between them. But names have always held a certain intimacy to Lust.]

[But she also tries to keep these darker, stranger parts of her past to herself. She doubts anything would shock Boone, or change his feelings about her, but even after so long in this world she feels the need to keep certain things out of view. Her name ties into it all.]

It's Isa. I...am Isa.

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Isa. That's a pretty name. Suits you.

[He wonders if it's Isa as in Isabelle.]

Hey, I'm glad you told me. Won't use it unless you want me to, though.

[a_sin_for_him]

Thank you. I don't know anything about it, what it means, if it's even my name or just...some pet name I was called as a child. But it's all I remember.

[Due to some strange quirk of this place and nothing more. Had that strange weekend not happened, had she never been subject to those particular effects of wild Pokemon magic...]

It's alright in private, if you'd like.

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Could be some shortened form of Isabelle, or Isabella.

[He offers it, wondering if it'll resonate with her any.]

Sure, I'll keep it just between us.

[a_sin_for_him]

[A thoughtful frown purses Lust's lips, some faint something shifting in those dark depths of her mind. Sometimes she feels as though it's some dark, shadowy swamp. She knows things are down there in the depths, but she can't see them. There's only that impression of movement sometimes.]

I think...it could be...

Oh, but I don't even know what sort of names my people have. I just don't remember any of that.

[Not for lack of trying.]

But thank you.