"Um, hi Luna, hi Mr Pulsifer," Carrie said. "The blood's sort of a long story, I got it dumped on me back when I was alive. And I don't have a nickname, unless you count what the kids at school used to call me, but those names weren't very nice." She looked at Luna again. "Did you get picked on too? It wasn't very nice of them to call you Loony." She did, however, think that perhaps they had been right in Luna's case. She'd only been speaking for five minutes and Carrie could already tell she was at least a little eccentric.