Chapter 351

Fuji looked confused for a moment, like what I’d said made no sense.

“I had no name,” she said simply. “The owner of a female names her on my planet. If the male wishes the female to have a name, he gives her one. I was granted my own name to use by Master Stayne and his brothers. It is the only name I have ever had.”

Rose and I both sat and stared at Fuji.

“You never told me that,” Rose said, almost accusingly.

Fuji sat and thought for a moment before she shifted and spoke. “Master Stayne and his brothers demand that I speak honestly with my friends, because I wish to. I have never been given this directive before.”

Rose and I started to speak at once and had to take turns. What Fuji had said made almost no sense. Either you spoke freely or your said what your master demanded. It took us a while to understand that Fuji didn’t feel she could talk, unless they gave her permission. Still it was impressive she wanted to talk to us.

“You are changing