"Stede," he repeats, committing the name to memory. He does, genuinely, wish it sounded familiar. Maybe there is something about him in the historical record Darlington just never had cause to notice, but whatever it is, it's a mystery to them both. "I'm Darlington. No gentleman pirate, obviously, just a college student."

It's not entirely true, but he's had too much practice in discretion to bring up Lethe and the other societies without due cause.