Chapter 40
Child.
Beloved child.
My child.
The voices of various gods rang out in succession, but she shook her head.
“No, not that. You said names are unique things!”
In the past, she had thought ‘child’ was her name, since that was how the gods addressed her.
It was a way of referring to her, but slightly different from an actual name. They said other young humans could also be called ‘child’, ‘little one’ and so on. Even though the gods only used those terms for her. Still, she wanted to have a name.
She had heard that all humans had their own unique names. So to become like other humans, shouldn’t she have a name too?
A name is a meaningless thing.
Fleeting and transient.
Merely a futile word used by humans.
“But didn’t you say that if I leave this place, I’ll live among humans?”