the essential Saltes of humane Dust | Glowfic Constellation

from-the-deeps

"Yeah. Dunno how I'd write out my full name, since I've also got one from my mom? And my dad also gave me a boy name. But I don't know if anyone's ever made a rule for combining English and shoggoth names. Guess I could stick the shoggoth ones in the middle..."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"I think that might be the way to do it. What is your full name, then?"

from-the-deeps

"Nausicaa Nereus" very long fluting noise "Uzun."

"The shoggoth part is more - a description of my ancestors and who we've been and what we hope to become? It's... I think it translates as 'child of the sorrow whose ancestor the spiraling one came from slavery who begat the floodwaters of the place of ice whose strength bound the fire who begat the one who combs the long strands of the future fame who begat this one, whose people's hope is bright.'"

"Guess I could write it as 'bright sorrow' if I had to transcribe it? That's - the bookends, which would be what people would call me just casually. So Nausicaa Nereus Bright Sorrow Uzun."

"If I was being really formal I'd do a whole family tree back to the time of slavery, I think?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"I'm--sorry that happened to your people."

from-the-deeps

"Yeah, it's - a really big part. Of who we are. I don't know where we came from originally, actually, we don't have a pre-slavery history?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Well. Maybe we can find out."

from-the-deeps

"That'd be really nice! And - important. You gotta know where you come from."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

Nod. "I don't come from anywhere very interesting, I don't think. I'm more interested in where I'm going. But Joseph's family keeping track of where they came from is why Amity and I are alive today."

from-the-deeps

"Yeah. It helps us know where we're going, I guess?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

Nod. "I think I've done a pretty good job of casting my past aside and tying myself to Joseph's instead. But most people are on better terms with their immediately relevant ancestors."

from-the-deeps

"Yeah. And, well, you know what not to do now, right?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"I really think I could have avoided that particular mistake anyway but yes."

from-the-deeps

"Some should probably be pretty obvious, yeah..."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"'Don't poison your child' is pretty basic."

from-the-deeps

"...It is. Yeah. Sorry that happened to you."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"I'm alright now."

from-the-deeps

"That's good. And we're traveling! Where're we going first?"

Joseph Dexter Ward

I-am-not-resigned

"From here we're headed to Arkham, where Miskatonic University has a copy of the Latin translation of the Necronomicon."

from-the-deeps

"For more necromancy?"

Joseph Dexter Ward

I-am-not-resigned

"And to inquire with the librarian as to who else has been reading it."

from-the-deeps

"Smart! If you want more old stuff - I think there's some Deep Ones nearby Miskatonic? I might be able to send a message to some of my grandmother's old colleagues, see if anyone has some really old texts?"

Joseph Dexter Ward

I-am-not-resigned

"Oh, that would be lovely."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"What are Deep Ones?"

from-the-deeps

"They're another ocean people. They kind of look like humanoid frogs? Though they have some fish-like stuff. They're friendly with my people, though I've only met one once."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel