[ Himeka is someone who has never been ashamed of her appearance, no matter how foreign it had been when she first travelled across the sea, or how nearly everyone here in prison appears to be some sort of Hyur. But she is acutely aware of the differences now between the person she had presented in Horizon versus who she appears to be now. A very...complicated situation that she isn't even fully prepared to address herself.

That he is still much the same makes it easier, of course, ignoring her own little existential identity crisis. So she nods, keeping up a cheerful expression in the least because she feels she owes it to him with the confusion. ]

It's very fitting.

[ Not that she knows the context, but likewise as someone who is prone to nicknames--though mostly because she doesn't bother to learn a name unless she deigns it important...or unless they're eating something she can remember them by. ]

"Hime" is fine, if you're comfortable with it.

[ But she feels that she should say something about all that. ]

To tell you the truth, I'm not entirely sure why I...changed all that back on Horizon.

[ Well. That's not entirely true, but... ]

But I can assure you that this is the me I've always been.