[It's interesting, in a way, how little he actually responds to his first name, how little it's even used. There are generally two people who call him that, now, and one of those people is his Dad - the other is Windom, for entirely different reasons.]
[Otherwise, people call him Cooper. Coop. He prefers it when they do.]
[So to hear his given name like this, from a strange child who doesn't quite seem like a child, that has him react.]
[Not physically, so much, even if he does tense slightly, pauses in the surprise. It's mostly in his mind and the way he starts going through the possibilities for her to know, and how he should react in turn.]
You mean this?
[He's pretty good at being outwardly calm when he calls attention to the gun by lifting the hand that's holding it a bit.]
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[It's interesting, in a way, how little he actually responds to his first name, how little it's even used. There are generally two people who call him that, now, and one of those people is his Dad - the other is Windom, for entirely different reasons.]
[Otherwise, people call him Cooper. Coop. He prefers it when they do.]
[So to hear his given name like this, from a strange child who doesn't quite seem like a child, that has him react.]
[Not physically, so much, even if he does tense slightly, pauses in the surprise. It's mostly in his mind and the way he starts going through the possibilities for her to know, and how he should react in turn.]
You mean this?
[He's pretty good at being outwardly calm when he calls attention to the gun by lifting the hand that's holding it a bit.]
No. Not in this place.