Beauty nodded, each time he explained one point or another. She understood that he wouldn't want to give out secrets about himself that could later be used against him. Life was important. But she wondered if names were as important to Eric as they were to others. She'd heard that names -- true names -- were powerful things. And then she realized that she'd never given Eric any way to know her name. Did Red already tell him? Should she keep her name to herself?
Lips parted, she was ready to ask on the heels of his last statement, when that very last statement came. And first she blinked, not sure she could believe that she'd heard what he said correctly. She stammered on a word that could have been "Is".
That blush that'd turned her rosy before came flooding back, and if she'd been rosy before, she was downright crimson now. She was sure she should object to what he'd just told her. She was sure she should stand. And she would do both these things -- just as soon as she could stop bloody stammering!