Cress Chapters 39/40 is quite possibly my favourite part of the whole series for a variety of reasons, but at this moment I need to talk about Thorne and the escort droid.
Now, not even getting into the whole minutiae of his going about acquiring this escort, which is a whole other deal, Carswell Thorne, in the middle of crisis mode, finds out that he is in possession of an escort droid. There's maybe, what? six hours between this moment and the next time we see them, wherein he is actively panicked searching for Cress however, he still takes the time to do two things that we know of.
A) Carswell Thorne, self-admitted to being some kind of way with women, hears that this hot sexy companion robot goes by "Darling." Apparently thinks "Yeah, no. We're gonna change that." And gives her a normal human name (Darla.)
B) Spends apparently a notable enough amount of the short time he's with Darla yapping about how cool Cinder is that Darla immediately informs her that Thorne has "Spoken SO highly of you."
INCREDIBLE use of crisis time. I love this man so much.

















