Sun Mote Copse Demeter's sorrow

Wraen made it even more awkward for him by asking why he was sorry. Didn't she understand? Wasn't she upset? Regardless, Eljay explained super awkwardly: Um, because I.. Because of pretending to know what a jabberwocky was. Eljay nervously looked at his feet when he said it, because it took a lot of work for him not to burst into tears and run away. He was generally pretty honest, but in these kind of situations he sometimes talked along with others and pretended to know what they were on about when he really didn't. To be caught out like that made him feel very guilty and like a terrible person.

Anyway, he rather not dwell too long on being a terrible lying son of a dweeb, so Eljay was glad enough to change the subject to stories or his name or anything, really, so long as it was not the former subject. He clung on for dear life to this changed subject and said: The 'El' stands for Elwood, 'cause my name's Elwood Junior. But mommy shortened it to Eljay. Was it weird that he still called her 'mommy'? It probably was, but he had realised it too late.