In truth when she had stopped and presented him with such a question, she had been expecting another response. It had been a long time but others in her history had laughed, ignored her, and left her there with no answers and no way to try to comprehend why she even existed. The biological she knew, but the philosophical… the reason why she continued to function, eluded her.
She had shaken her head at his response before stopping, but it was more to herself. Tsillah didn’t know what it was to have something to want. There had never been anything in her path. She didn’t know what it was to have a home, to exist with others - she barely remembered her sire and dam. All that she saw when she thought of them was blood, lightning and a falling shape writhing in shadow.
Perhaps she was something new to him. Not knowing where to go from there, was this something he hadn’t expected? Tsillah found her eyes looking into his, as he answered the question she’d posed.
And he pauses, and for a moment silence winds its way between them. A name falls from his lips, with a title - a place, something. A home? Maybe. She finds herself hesitating just for a moment. Change was a part of the world and her way forward constantly shifted, changing every day with every step she took but she still didn’t know what it was.
She finally looked back to him after letting her eyes wander the Meadow. “Then you know who you are, Solomon, for the most part. The Cove is … your home?” She inquires. “I am nothing but a name; Tsillah. It is the only truth about myself I have ever known. Everything else...” she says, and finally there is a hint of emotion in her voice. A longing, if that made any sense.
“I felt something long ago as a child. I want to feel it again but I don’t know how to. Something memorable. Does this Cove have something memorable?” She asks him, and her eyes are weird, intently looking at him.
Maybe this was a path.
Even if for the time being, Tsillah was oblivious and not understanding of anything. Perhaps he could show her - and show her others, who might help to enlighten her as to what it was to live in the moment and stop searching for the right path to her fate.