"I'm not sure if owls even really learn their names, so it probably doesn't matter if I think of anything very soon."

"You could just give her a person sort of name. Julianne. Demeter. Calpurnia."

"I kind of like Demeter. It'd be awkward if then there was a person at school with us named that, though, wouldn't it?"

Matt seems vaguely confused about Karen’s definition of “a person sort of name”, but continues to say nothing.

"Does... he talk?" Karen asks Miranda.

"Yeah, just not a lot."

“I haven’t had anything to say.”

"You don't have to talk if you don't want."

Karen shrugs.

“It’s not really that I don’t want to, just… like I said, I didn’t have anything to say.”

"Why not?"

“I just couldn’t think of anything to say.”