[ she is just hoping that this is as much a waking nightmare as her life before arriving here had become. ]

That is not how etiquette works, is it?

[ she tilts her ahead, aware now that this girl is better-born than she speaks. and elizabeth can now relate to her, because her life has also been stolen out from beneath her. she has been trying, desperately to claw back some control of her own. ]

Very well, then. Elizabeth is my given name. Should you wish to know the name of my House, you will have to give me your given name in exchange.

Is that fair?