He laughs.

"You sure got used to it fast," he says.

"You could say I'd been thinking about applications of magic for a while."

"This, for example, was entirely appropriate."

"Huh.  Why that and not, like, flying?"

"I was already genderfluid before eclipsing. It was very nice of my eclipse to give me magery."

"Uh.  Genderfluid?"

"Sometimes I feel like a girl, sometimes I feel like a boy. This has always been the case, even before magery, but magery made it easier to also be... appropriately shaped."

"Huh, weird," he says, and shrugs.  "Do you have to switch, like, your name to a boy's name when you switch to being a boy?  Actually, what is your name?"

"Sadde."

"Sadde?  What is that, one of those weird white people names?"

She sporfles.

"No, it's a 'my mom was a weird person' name."

"I'm guessing you take after her?"

"Yes," she says, still giggling uncontrollably.

Lewis is pleased about having caused laughter!  Look at his pleased grin.

"So you see," she says between giggles, "I don't have to worry about my name."

"You sure don't!" he says.  "Did your mom just make it up or did she name you after, like, a tree or a car or something?"

"I, uh... lost her before it ever occurred me to ask."

"Oh.  I'm sorry."

"It's fine. It's been years."

"All right," he says, still a bit upset about Sadde's mother but willing to drop the subject if it needs to be dropped.  Subject change, subject change, come on..."So, uh, what do you do for fun?  Besides, like, scheming about immortality."

"Well, I don't actually scheme about immortality yet, seen as I haven't even made myself immortal, I'm waiting until I get that down, but I read books, think about magic, talk to people, convince them to ensconce me somewhere private and do whatever they want to me or vice-versa depending on the case, sometimes I like going out to restaurants or strip clubs with friends, I joined choir..."

"Uh.  Wait.  Back up.  So. You're..."

"I'm?"

"The thing about the ensconcing.  Are you a...you know..."

"...a switch?"