[ So far everyone has told her to use first names, so Circe has been left assuming that is the default use-name, and any greater nuance is lost on her. To her, a full name would be Circe of Aiaia, asserting the location she calls home as where her loyalties lie.

She gives a brief smile, genuine and warm, before she recovers her composure. ] No need to apologize. I have a veritable menagerie at my home; I end up running interference between them half the day.

[ This is an exaggeration, but she does have to run interference pretty regularly between her assorted animals, and there's a long-suffering affection behind it that belies her tolerance for them. ]

How did you acquire all of them? [ It was her impression that mortals did not tend to keep animals idly or for no purpose. ]