"Names are very important where I come from," she replied. "Having survived an incursion of sorts, I've learned that much. What name you call someone by grants them power. I suspect you'll pass that off as old superstition, but I can promise you it's far more than that."

She smiled mirthlessly, no light reaching her eyes. "I suppose you might say I'm interested in knowing what sort of monster I may have created."

And she was curious. Incurably curious.