memories like poison

Sivene listened to the other, and explained quietly: Ghila'nain made tel'quiet Ath Tel'alu foam, leha sal did col / n' (prefix) stay aul Tel'Iqua's possession. She felt like she had to explain; Arlathan was neither home nor was it not home. She had not been subjected for long to the mad scientist.

When the question of her name was brought up, she answered easily. Sivene. Experiment Cetacea Number 1.2, Version 3. She spoke brightly, as if she had not just called herself by her experiment name.