Swiftcurrent Creek Pick you up, let you down

He wanted to ask what in her past she was avoiding, but he wasn't sure she was in a position to tell him right now; she looked like she felt just as emotionally decimated as he did. Alessia, he repeated instead. I would like to call you by your real name when it's just us if that's okay, Kavik asked quietly. He would, of course, continue to call her by Myrren if that's what she preferred, but maybe she would trust him enough to allow him to use her real name at least in private.