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[wantingmore]

Yes?

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[wantingmore]

[It's an unexpected question, and Claudia answers with clear surprise.]

Truthfully, I haven't thought of it. I always saw myself as never knowing it.

[Unspoken, of course, is the fact that de Lioncourt seems like a taboo thing to call or consider herself.]

That I would always simply be Claudia, nothing more.

[Belonging to no one. With no one. Equal parts rejecting of a family and being barred from it.]

[deathoftheauthor]

Perhaps it is a peculiar concern... unnecessary for our kind. I lost all ties to my own mortal family long ago, and yet the name remains.

I wonder if now might be the time for you to choose something intentional, even if it is entirely for show.