[ She had been so caught up in the calming activity of busywork that his introduction takes her mildly off guard, as though there were any art to cautiously gathering potentially incendiary paper if she so much glanced at it the wrong way.
Now she was left with figuring out just what people would ordinarily respond with in this situation. Not doing too well on the insight. Usually she never gave her name unless she was in a more dramatic position to have to reveal it, but this... was new. She would need to buy herself more time to decide on that. He hadn't yet proved (too) aggravating to be around. That was something. ]
Is that so...? I didn't consider it an issue of rudeness, when there was a goal to accomplish.
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[ She had been so caught up in the calming activity of busywork that his introduction takes her mildly off guard, as though there were any art to cautiously gathering potentially incendiary paper if she so much glanced at it the wrong way.
Now she was left with figuring out just what people would ordinarily respond with in this situation. Not doing too well on the insight. Usually she never gave her name unless she was in a more dramatic position to have to reveal it, but this... was new. She would need to buy herself more time to decide on that. He hadn't yet proved (too) aggravating to be around. That was something. ]
Is that so...? I didn't consider it an issue of rudeness, when there was a goal to accomplish.