"Ha, all right, where do you want the stuff?"

"Dry storage is back this way - " lead lead flourishy gesture.

He reads through the list and appears plenty of everything in neatly organized bins.

"Wow, okay.  Not that I didn't believe you; it would've been kind of weird if all the other stuff made sense but you were lying about this one thing, but.  Wow."

"It's pretty swell! Anything else?"

"Lemme think about it while I get going on your paperwork . . ."  And she starts filling out a form with Cricket's deadname on it.  "Don't suppose you've already picked up a silver piece somewhere; obviously I'm willing to waive that but I don't, uh, actually know how to without it being really obviously suspicious - "

"...I have not already picked up a silver piece. Are they magic or are you just concerned about counterfeiting?"

"Just counterfeiting."

"Would you like to buy anything off me for a silver piece?"

"Oh, yeah that works - I guess I could just do movies - "  She lists off eleven titles, with some consideration, and slides a coin across the table, then back over to her side and deposits it in a cash register.  "I might still try and think of other stuff if you're just giving it away, but for now that puts us about square."

"What format is in vogue here and now for movies?"

"Magnestrip.  - Or, flatdisk if you're asking in general but I don't have a player for those yet.  . . . Can I have a flatdisk player."

"Name a model."

"I don't know any.  - I guess you could make a catalog or whatever too but let's get through this first - um, I'm just going to put down that he was already neutered; please be responsible about any kittens . . ."

"I will give him The Talk."

"Okay good."  She ticks a checkbox.  "Do other universes do birthdays differently and if so have you by chance already found a plausible correspondence I could write down."

"Our dates of birth have negligible correlation with character traits. I was born on what is in my universe called September thirteenth, though it's in the autumn, there, and I don't know if that's locally plausible for my personality."

"That's so weird!  I'll just put down something even, then."

"If I seem even to you then by all means."

"Oh, not especially, just it's the least suspicious at a glance.  But if you'd had something already it would have been more likely to stand up to any suspicion that ends up existing."

"What are September thirteenths supposed to be like?"

"Uh, so first of all don't go around saying 'thirteenth' for day numbers; nobody does that.  But that'd be . . . the second Fivesday; there was one of those in my grade growing up, nice kid - uh, not odd enough that you have to worry about them too much; she was good at presenting group projects but occasionally slacked off on the prep work, not that I can really complain about that; kinda sporty."

"Well that's not me at all."

"Then don't use your real birthday as your fake birthday I guess!"

"What fake birthday am I being assigned?"