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[Rufous doesn't know at all what he's doing, and in a way, that's probably good for him.]

[Hunter did know and that was Child Soldiering.]

It...it is important. Names are important. I mean...

Someone had to think of you and what to call you and this thing would always be apart of you, so yeah, its...its important.

Can I hug you?

Of course!

[ letting go of his hands to open her arms for him ]

[He is! Going to hug her!]

[Kind of tight and there might be a small trembling because she's happy he told her, she thinks its important, and there is so much screaming in his head that its hard to make sense of it.]

[But somewhere in it.]

[He's happy.]

[ hugging him back, leaning on him a little and patting him

after a moment or two: ]

It isn't as cool as finding out your name, but I wanted to show you something, too. Do you want to come inside?

[He nods.] Yeah.

[He still holds onto her a few moments more, enjoying the contact, before taking another shuddery breath and straightening up to let her go.]

Let's go see it.

[ taking his hand then, so she can lead him inside ]

Oh—by the way, do you want me to keep calling you Rufous, or would you rather me switch to Hunter?

[Squeezes her hand.]

....

[The amount of screaming in his brain.]

[His name is important.]

[Rufous is important for Pep bonding.]

[But his name is important.]

[But Rufous isn't....the same as being the Golden Guard? He's certainly not the perfect Pep.]

[And doesn't that dig into his insecurities.]

I don't know yet.

Maybe....maybe in private Hunter is good. And Rufous publicly. For now.

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. . . Ehehe, then it's like a secret just between us.

[He blushes at that.]

...I think I'm fine with that.

If its a secret with you.

[ oh no she said a thing that she's retroactively a little embarrassed about. but also it makes her happy so ]

Ehehe . . . thank you!

[ and, smaller-voiced, like she's whispering a secret to him: ]

Hunter.

[.....oh]

[The only person he's remembered saying his name is his uncle. And while it had been staticked at the time, he still felt the feelings and then it had felt Heavy.]

[From Felicity, it feels....light. A relief.]

Y-yeah. No problem. [Smiling in return, squeezing her hand.]

[ beams at him before going to unlock the door. i forget but she's yanno probably sitting on albert. then they shall toddle into the chemistry lab ]

[Sometimes there's just a sheep here in hug time and that's Fine.]

[He looks around and oh, now he can actually Appreciate A Lab.]

Oh wow. Some of this stuff...its all machinery?

Hmm. . . There are mechanical appliances here, but a lot of what's in here are chemicals.

[ with a little wave of her hand, and one of the shelves is opening up, seemingly magically floating to the workbench ]

...so you have potion making too?

[Following along to see the work bench.]

I think alchemy is a closer concept to chemistry, but I guess you could say they're potions?

[ the shelf contains a box inside, which felicity is picking up and setting onto the workbench delicately. once she opens it, rufous will be able to see hexagonal . . . clouds?

at least they look a lot like a cloud might. ]

Alchemy is pretty close to potions. At least in the Isles. Like...

All potions are a kind of alchemy, but not all alchemy is just potions. [Wild Magic has some Alchemy Stuff, SO.]

[He leans close to look at it, tilting his head curiously.]

Some kind of...dense smoke?

Mm, that makes sense. Likewise, mixing chemicals together would be chemistry, but not chemistry isn't just about mixing chemicals together.

[ picking one up carefully, offering it out to him ]

This is a microporous silica! It's 99% air, and it feels almost as light as air, too.

Microporous...sillica? [What's a sillica?]

[He will taking it though!!!]

Whoa, that's...weird.

[ it feels a little bit like glass so maybe that might be what it is ]

Microporous means it has a lot of tiny little holes in its structure, and silica is a type of compound—you'd find it naturally in sand and in quartz! Not like this, though. I made this!

[ while she reaches for a bunsen burner ]

[Maybe????]

I see.

....no offense, it is an interesting material, but what would something like this be even used for?

[ grins ]

That's a good question. It's really delicate, after all—the gaps in the structure means it's really easy to break.

But the gaps have another quality, too. Here, you can put it on this.

[ she's set up a bunsen burner and ring stand, with a watchglass on the ringstand. gesturing to the watchglass ]

[????]

[He will put it on the watchglass?]

[ and she will turn on the bunsen burner. ]

What is your understanding of heat?

...I....understand it?

I guess how you mean?

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