Duane, Diane - Tale of The Five 01 - The Door Into Fire by Duane Diane

Author:Duane, Diane
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2004-02-13T23:50:51+00:00

She looked at him, earnest, sincere; but the testing look was also in her eyes, the look that awaited an answer, and the right one. A look that dared him to dare.

'If you knew it,' she said, 'would you pay that price for your Power?'

'My Name?' he said slowly. Certainly there was no higher price file:///G|/rah/Diane%20Duane%20-%20Tales%...e%2001%20-%20The%20Door%20Into%20Fire.htm (142 of 287) [2/13/2004 11:51:15 PM]

Tale of The Five Vol 1 - The Door Into Fire that he could pay. His inner Name, his own hard-won knowledge of himself, of all the things he could be-But he didn't know it. And even if he had, the thought of giving his inner Name to another person was frightening. It was to give your whole self, totally, unreservedly; a surrender of life, breath and soul into other hands. To tell a friend your Name, that was one thing. Friends usually had a fairly good idea of what you were to begin with, and the fact that they didn't use it against you was earnest of their trustworthiness. But to sell your Name to a stranger-to pay it, as a price for something - the thought was awful. Once a person had your Name, they could do anything to you - bind you to their will, take that Name from you and leave you an empty thing, a shell in which blood flowed and breath moved, but no life was. Or bind you into some terrible place that was not of this world. Or, horrible thought, into another body that wasn't yours; man or beast or Fyrd or demon, it wouldn't much matter. Madness would follow shortly.

The possibilities for the misuse of a Name were as extensive as the ingenuity of malice.

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