“You know how, when you repeat a word over and over quickly, it loses its meaning?” The woman nodded, carefully. “Well,” Agnes went on, “your body has been through a great deal of repetition, and the grammar holding you together has come loose. The meaning attached to your name has gone slack, and we want to tighten it up again. But,” she said, and here she looked to Rin, who looked away, “that needs to be your choice.”
