"...moogles can be buddies?" Connie says, almost perplexed. "Buddy" seemed like the antithesis of everything Mogheswaran was. It was like they distilled the tortured souls of every tech support rep in the multiverse into one miserable, sarcastic, jaded catbear.

"A-anyways! What's your name?" Connie asks. It was probably best to be polite to someone she tripped and fell over conversationally through her curiosity. "Mine's Connie Maheswaran."