Techie let out a loud laugh and groped around blindly for Sarah’s hand. “You don’t h-have to call me B-Bill if you don’t want to. Mostly I like to kn-know it’s there if I w-want to use it, that’s all. That it belong to m-me.”

He starts to unwrap all the bandages from around his eyes and adds, “Anyways, I’m n-not used to being called B-Bill yet.”