As close as she was to being fully asleep after having been soothed by the gentle caress of his hand over her hair, the sound of the girl's real name was enough to slowly pull her back from the heavy haze, blinking confusedly toward the person who had uttered it.

Staring at him for several moments, eventually Tear came to the decision to simply keep her silence on the topic. There was no point in waking him up again just to ask why he had called her that, and besides... if it was from him, she didn't mind terribly, if at all. As the only person she had ever willingly spoken that name to, she had also bestowed him the okay to call her by it whenever he wished.

In this situation, it was perhaps the only way to call her as her eyes slid shut once more, nuzzling into him just a little before her own affectionate whisper carried quietly into the air.

"Good night, Ace..."