The refusal of a name--not for any good reason evidently but just to be willful and contrary--gave Aurus a fair impression of the sort of person he was dealing with here. He gave a mild eyebrow raise, not of surprise but more simply an oh I see. He, however, was going to more wisely pick his battles and how he fought them, and this was one he would fight by simply ignoring. If the boy wanted to shroud himself in some kind of secrecy that was his business.

Just like it was Aurus's business to casually point out how futile protecting his name was when everything else he said revealed something more about him. "Oh, so you are from Ebonhawke. I'd wondered.

"It's a long way. You're lucky to be alive."