"I didn't use the word 'miserable,' but yes. She said 'tough'—bit subtler, but that. I suggested using another pronoun like 'ey' or 'zie' and I think she wanted to bite my head off."

"But they're not even slightly plural."

"No, but apparently they're 'made up.' I wanted to make a ping-pong ball appear and say it was made up as well, but I don't think that'd be conductive to donations so I just decided to get distracted by something somewhere else."

"Well done."

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome."

"Whose existence are you questioning now?"

"The latest is yet another person with very relevant opinions on how we should've handled Purity and Hookwolf and Rewind and Fireball," because lacking an official name for the latter two they pretty much made it up. "There was someone who was very unsubtly criticizing the decoration, there was someone doing the same to the food while holding two hors d'oeuvres, there was even someone doing both things." They shake their head very slightly to themself.

"Well, to be charitable one can be very hungry and have discerning food tastes simultaneously."

"The fact that this may be about the best stuff I've ever eaten in my life might be biasing me a bit, but that's beyond the point."

"Are they that good? I never eat at things like this."

"They're delicious."

"Well, that's good then."

"Yeah. Also this one girl agreed my bot was cute." Pause. "Does it have a name? I feel very remiss for taking so long to ask."

"The central software should really get a name but I haven't thought of anything I like enough and I know I'll get attached once I pick something. The individual chassis don't have names either."

"Is getting attached bad?"

"It means I can't change it if I think of something better later."

"...isn't that an argument against ever naming it?"

"No, it's an argument for having a really high threshold, so if I think of the perfect name later I won't be too disappointed at merely having an excellent name. I just have to think of an excellent name."

"Oh. Do you have a list of characteristics a name must have to be considered excellent?"

"Not as such, why?"

"'Cause then I could try to help beyond just suggesting a bunch of names until one struck your fancy."

"Well, you're still welcome to suggest a bunch of names until one strikes my fancy."

"Alright! Later, though, otherwise Chevalier will get on our cases again. Besides, some of these people are interesting."