"Right, I forget," she says, more to herself than to Era. The terminology of her day and age - slang, yes - is sometimes a bit different. Eudio had a bunch of people from around the same time. Vanyel had been pretty used to her slang, too, before long so.

"When you crush on someone, it means you like them. In a romantic way! Infatuation, I think, is the closest word to it."