Firefly Glen [wp] i'm not ready to die

you could take parts of it. sobeille thought it was something powerful -- like how seers extracted totems from objects of significant power. take the heart of something, and it might still beat when given life in a new form.

my grandmaman be named rosalyn. dere can be only one rosalyn. but mebbe, i mash some names together. she didn't know the word for portmanteau, but she thought this practice of name-melding an exciting idea. mebbe i be namin' dem after two at once. she fell silent, considering the gravitas a name-meld of two of sapphiques' greatest matriarchs could have. would that child borrow some of her early ancestor's power -- would she grow to form her own legacy more enduring than those that stood before her?

and here she was, named after a boy.