Yeah, but my roommate kept calling her Nym for short and now she won't answer to anything but that stupid nickname.

[NEIL IS WAY TOO DENSE FOR THIS, but he kind of catches on to the fact that he's confusing her.]

Oh, uh, this is kinda complicated, but where I come from your life is kind of a book instead of like, a real thing. It's this whole big weird different-worlds sort of thing. [Not... explaining this very well. But he's trying.]