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‘Never say “foals” where the mounts can hear you,’ the riding master had said. ‘That is our word. We merely assume there are foals, though we have never seen any, so don’t say it. In fact, never say anything where the mounts can hear you.’
In the depths of Sanctity is the name of every man and woman who has ever lived in all of human history. Those for whom no written history could be found have been extrapolated by the humming machines back to the edge of the time when there was no mankind.
‘Why’d you call me Rillibee?’ he complained to his mother after one particularly bad day at school when everyone was busy making fun of his name and his clothes and his folks. ‘Why Rillibee?’ ‘It’s the sound the water makes running over stones,’ she said. ‘I heard it the night before you were born.’
His name had been Jorny then,
