"I doubt she meant it literally darling," Sylvando said. Though he supposed if they were both interested... But that was hardly the kind of discussion to have over tea with a young girl, however jaded she thought herself to be.

"I expect she does have another name, though," he said. "Ooh, maybe that's what your mother knew! After all, it must be a terribly embarrassing name for her to prefer to be known as just 'Evil Queen'. What do you think, eh? Maybe Queen 'Ermintrude'? Or 'Maisey'?" He grinned and took up the tea and sugarcubes and headed into the living room setting them down on the coffee table.

"And they say 'Never assume, because when you do, you make an ass out of u and me,'" he said as he sat down on the couch, then gave her a cheeky wink. "And just to point out, it's not swearing if you're talking about donkeys."