Brilliance - Part 13

"It's a bit unfair," Oliver said. "I'll be giving you too much of a secret."

"Telllll meeeee," Nila begged, no longer playing coy, and instead pushing towards insolence.

"I did tell you that my parents were a rather silly pair, didn't I?" Oliver said. "My father especially…"

"You did," Nila said impatiently. "But what does that mean? What did they call you?"

"Nila, I got teased so often for this as a child," Oliver said. "Everyone in the village would see me do something reckless, and be like… 'oh, that's why they called him that, I suppose.'"

"Call you what?" Nila pressed.

"…I wasn't meant to be called it," Oliver said. "It was meant to be a placeholder, until they found a better name for me. Apparently, they already had a name picked out for me, for my birth, but when I was born, at the very last second, they had a change of heart."

"What did they call you?" Nila said. "What placeholder?"