It is a weird name, but you can't just go around pointing that out to people and expect them to be okay with it. She had thought Gretchen was a weird name the first time that she met the girl, and that ended up being about as fine as anything else in her life, so going off of experience alone, this encounter at least promises to be interesting. Claire does start a little bit at it, though, just because it's nothing that she's heard before and isn't at all what she had been expecting, never mind that expecting anything had been out of the question to begin with, but she takes his hand all the same.

Her hands are unblemished and soft, and his palm feels rough against hers, and the whole thing feels like some kind of accomplishment on a strange level. She has a firm handshake by default, and she makes direct eye contact and smiles when she says, "Nice to meet you. Sorry it's not under less insane circumstances." She lets go without pretense or fanfare, keeping it short and to the point in an effort not to be anymore awkward than their days already have been.