"Nate, then." She took the correction in stride, even seemingly grateful to have received it. She firmly believed in leaving formality at the office's edge. "But my question still stands. It hurts just to have ours get pinched a little too roughly--" and she could remember the pain she'd experienced on being pinned against the bathhouse wall, though she reckoned his hurt had been exponentially worse. "Seems odd that they would develop even more of an obvious weak spot, in comparison."
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