Teersa: I’ve blessed the naming of a child. Lansra: Stop this! At once! What have you done? Now, go! And be ready to declare! Go! All-Mother, this child needs a name by which to know her, that your love may warm her life as the rising sun warms all the earth! Speak her name! Teersa: You by choice, and she, well… I’m a High Matriarch, Rost. Teersa: Have not six months gone by since we entrusted her to you? Teersa: No-no-no, off your knees! It’s nearly time. Rost: High Matriarch Teersa? What is she doing here? Does she mean to forbid the ritual? You must be humble and respect their power. It is one thing to hunt a beast, another to hunt a machine. To us were left the splendors of creation. Otherwise we might become like the faithless Old Ones, who turned their backs on the Goddess. The whole village would attend, and Matriarchs would perform the ritual. But - will the Goddess speak it back? Normally it would be the mother who declares. Rost: What’s that now? Don’t like the cold? Can’t stay in today. 19 QUEEN’S GAMBIT (Vanasha’s Questline).
