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Certainly, the idea of having the stage written over to you is appealing. Still - it is such an odd thing for a woman to own, you are worried that you might end up looking more suspicious if you were to just put it in your name. Idly, you shift your weight back and forth on your feet - and as you feel your repaired boots settle underneath you, you recall just how hard it was to convince that kindly old Cobbler to repair these boots. And in that moment, your mind is made up completely and utterly. There are tolls on the roads surely, checkpoints - you are going to be stopped at some point. Some points, more like. And if it is as much of an uphill battle to convince a Toll-man or Guard or whoever that you should be allowed to continue on your way as it was to get men's boots repaired, then ... well, you wouldn't give yourself good odds of you actually managing to make it to the Frontier. At the very least, if the stage is in your name, then whoever stopped you will have to presume that your father let you have it, and by extension, gave you permission to be out on the road by yourself.
Of course, you cannot have the stage written over to Chlotsuintha - it will have to be to Madame Dremen. And unless you intend to go back and forge a new Patent for the stage, as well as a bill of sale, this given name is going to have to be the one that you put down on your forged Family Patent as well. You favored 'Leopold' for Goodman Dremen's given name ... perhaps you could use 'Leopoldine' for Madame Dremen's? You don't know too much about Family Patents, but you are fairly certain that they make mention of parents and siblings. If ... if you were to put Leopoldine Dremen down as the only surviving child of Leopold Dremen, it might help explain your exceptional independence. You could frame it is Leopold trying to make his daughter into a son and heir.
Your thoughts now turn to your real father, and you cannot help yourself but wonder where he is - and if he is safe. You begin to recite a silent prayer on his behalf, but then with a start, you realize that Goodman Nasturtium is still staring at you, patiently waiting for a name. Embarrassed, you open your mouth, about to ask him to write it over to Madame Leopoldine Dremen again - but then you realize something, and stop yourself. Leopoldine also happens to be the given name of the Starlight Shrike, a pre-Estrangement Witch who designed and developed hundreds of of high-altitude and extreme-altitude flying Implements that could induced desired weather - so many in fact, that even during her time, there was apparently discussion on whether or not she should be recognized as the founder of an informal 'school' or not. She also studied Sky-Terrors extensively, and learned how to induce the creation of Awful-Offals, Constructs that the Terrors make out of the remains of their meals or even their leavings, which they use to drive prey on the ground to places convenient for the Terror to alight and feed.
