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I had also been fairly sure it was the best thing I had ever thought of.
“Solstrom.”
The table went quiet. Not the good kind.
“That’s not a name,” Cain said finally. “That’s a weather report.”
“It’s sun and storm. Together. I combined them.”
“You combined them,” Tempest repeated, without inflection.
“It honors both bloodlines.”
“It honors a forecast.”
“All names were made up once!”
“Yes,” Tempest said. “By people who then stopped when they created all the good ones.”
Across the table, Leah had both hands over her mouth and her shoulders were shaking. Darien was laughing into his cup, and the fourteen-year-old said, “Solstrom is stupid,” in the flat voice of a boy who has been holding that in