Cale blinked. He had never been asked that before. Of course, he'd never been around other children much, either.
"Er... it's just my name. With the front end sort of hacked off. My sister thought it worked and everyone sort of picked up on it..." As he became aware he was rambling, he trailed off.
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James frowned. Then scowled. "So I s'pose we'll call her 'Mad', then?"
He wasn't coming up with anything amazing. How was he supposed to retort when he was being ignored? Al usually didn't last long at that tactic, but he wasn't going to put it past the obnoxious blond girl to keep it up.