"Right, no, shouldn't keep you."

He turned to leave himself, but her question caught him off-guard. Did she really not recognize him? No, no, she had to, right? Faintly familiar, that was just another code.

"Yes, we met at the Powell Estate a few years ago," he said. "My hair was shorter, you were going by a slightly different name...well, a very different name but one chooses one's own name, right?"