On names...

[kevlar_diamond]

Penny wandered in behind Leela, the Bar showing behind them for a moment before she carefully settled into a kitchen chair. She'd learned today, she always learned, but usually it left her a bit more cheerful...

...today she just looked thoughtful as she traced lines in the air above the table, not touching the actual wood.

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[there_is_a_me]

"Hallo, Penny." Spoon says on one of his trips to the fridge. He builds up a hefty meal of leftovers for himself and drops a Chenango Strawberry* apple on the table in front of her.

He's still trying to figure out her favorites.

"How're you today?"

*Medium to large fruit smooth, yellowish or greenish-white skin striped with crimson. Flesh juicy, mildly subacid, aromatic with a hint of strawberries. Skin smooth and tough.

[kevlar_diamond]

She reached out happily to take the apple, always content with that particular fruit, and offered Spoon a sweet smile. "Learned to spell Penny, and Ben. And Benny. Will play with letters, make more words, because sound same words have most same letters, only one or two change. Like puzzle" she reasoned.

She nibbled her apple a bit, then tilted her head to the side "Penance pretty name?"

[there_is_a_me]

"..." Spoon pauses, fork halfway to his mouth, and says, "Oh, luv, it's...not a name, really. Not usually. Penance means a punishment undergone to...to say you're sorry for something terrible."

He's going to KILL everyone who has ever called her that. Dead.

[kevlar_diamond]

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"Oh" it was amazing how she could chime and click so quietly.

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"Called that when free from...from...other place." she stared fixedly at her apple instead of Spoon "Might not remember bad things did?"