"They are if there's no light," the young woman pointed out. "Sure, you can read outside during the daytime, and you can read inside if you've got a light of some sort, but take that light away and books are about as useless as movies." She cocked her head to one side, opening her palms to show that she meant no disrespect to George's affinity for books. "I enjoy a good book now and then, too. But there's something about watching a dramatic scene unfold on the big screen that just... sweeps me away." Her sigh was wistful.
Names had always been of great interest to Allie. They said a lot about a person. She was a personal fan of names that weren't gender specific. When a face wasn't revealed, it added to the mystery. "Oh," she said, when George responded that her name wasn't short for either of the ones she'd suggested. To anyone else, it might not have been a big deal, but to Allie? She found herself racking her brain for other potential feminine names that could be shortened to George. "Georgiana? Georgeanna? Georgeta?"
Allie covered a laugh with her hand upon seeing the expression on George's face. Too few people were bold enough to suggest the possibility of dressing in drag, and an even smaller percentage would never dare attempt it. The Andrada twins were in the minority. It wasn't every day you ran into a pair of fraternal twins who were willing to swap genders for the day.
Her expression sobered, however, when George brought up the suggestion that the government might one day enforce a breeding program. That had never occurred to her. "You don't really think they'd do that, do you? They couldn't force people to do that..." Yes, they could. After all, they were forcing Ollie to do things for them... and he wasn't even immune.