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Day 9 - extra
An extra Stephen drabble, because it would look lonely if I posted it all alone.
It's even 10% extra free, as I can't get it under 110 words.
No warnings; read it however you like :)
Inspired by a throwaway line in The Surgeon's Mate which has struck me whenever I've read it.
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On names
He handed Stephen the list of units, territorial units whose names were as familiar to Stephen as his own
As familiar to me as my own name, I said, but how much does that mean?
There have been too many names in too many countries; so many identities, so many lies. Hearing myself called Esteve felt almost foreign, like hearing of one long dead.
Perhaps it's only fitting. I was, after all, what is called a nameless child.
Jack has never felt need to doubt his identity, plain Jack Aubrey from a long line of Jack Aubreys, so maybe I should leave certainty to him. If he comes into the room, saying as he so often does, "Why, Stephen, there you are", can I be sure that I am?
It's even 10% extra free, as I can't get it under 110 words.
No warnings; read it however you like :)
Inspired by a throwaway line in The Surgeon's Mate which has struck me whenever I've read it.
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On names
He handed Stephen the list of units, territorial units whose names were as familiar to Stephen as his own
As familiar to me as my own name, I said, but how much does that mean?
There have been too many names in too many countries; so many identities, so many lies. Hearing myself called Esteve felt almost foreign, like hearing of one long dead.
Perhaps it's only fitting. I was, after all, what is called a nameless child.
Jack has never felt need to doubt his identity, plain Jack Aubrey from a long line of Jack Aubreys, so maybe I should leave certainty to him. If he comes into the room, saying as he so often does, "Why, Stephen, there you are", can I be sure that I am?