To be fair, she thought Cho was Hakkai's given name. Partially encouraged by the fact that the green-eyed dork used and put that in as her contacts. It was one of the many things that didn't necessarily match up with her expectations and was, well, alien to her. So the best she had was good intentions and guesses about half the time.

It wasn't the lack of the smile back, or him hiding his face that gets to Trance, though. If this was the reaction of a usually surly type, Trance thinks she could've handled that pretty well. However it was the tone that completely wiped the welcoming expression from her face, and the woman isn't much for acting and hiding her own emotions. Which is why her eyes looked ready to well up with tears like a child that had never been scolded before- not that she was about to cry. Instead, she straightened up her posture and took a step back. "If it helps, I don't know which part of your name you'd prefer, because I've learned that there's a lot about this world that I don't understand. So I can pretend that I don't, if you'd prefer that. It just seemed like this would be the nice and right thing to do."