2024-07-04 - What's in a name

Rocranth's announcement awakens Miles from a doze. A name? But he had a name... Didn't he? He sits listening to the other dragons call out their names and considers. He likes Miles but that is a word with a definition. He needs something that is purely his own. Something no one else has...

He considers the words and names he has collected, laying them out mentally like a child lays out blocks before beginning to build. He thinks about sounds he likes and ones he doesn't, discards several variations of existing names or words. Experiments with how various things make him feel before deciding on...

Haozieth

It's shorts but with several exotic sounds that few others use. And it's not a word it is defined as being him alone.
Let the others have found theirs first. He found the best name and is quick to bellow it loudly to the rest of the nearby eggs.

HAOZIETH! MY NAME IS HAOZIETH!