"Because Cain is a pseudonym," he said easily enough. "Or an alias, however you want to put it." He'd never claimed it was actually his name, just something he preferred to go by and that was nothing less than the truth. Tricky wording, yes, but words were generally easy to play with after having so long to learn them. "My real name is Romulus."

Returning to her earlier question, Cain paused, thought about it, then shook his head. "It doesn't bother me all that much, but bringing it up here would likely just cause more trouble than it would solve. There's literally no way to prove I'm telling the truth, after all," he said. Not that he would lie about that, but he wasn't going to assume everyone might take him at his word.