'Glad to hear it'. Of course he was, with a question like that. It was easy to be glad of something when you know you were going to get the 'right' answer anyway. But she'd take him at his word even so. If he wanted to try and paint motion he was perfectly welcome to.

"Susan," she corrected, almost on reflex. She'd never had a nickname before, and she certainly wasn't going to accept what he was offering in place of a perfectly good and functional name.