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[Poison makes a face, though it's an odd blend of mixed sympathy and confusion. That someone could say something like that to a child, and then... how her stepmother had treated her throughout the time they had known each other. She doesn't entirely blame her for it now - Poison is well aware of how difficult she was - but could this man have done anything to deserve it?]

Then why keep it?

[She cocks her head at him, clearly genuinely interested now. She's never met another person with a similar story to her own when it comes to having a different name.]

I just... got used to mine, I think. It feels strange to be called anything else.