An Escape Plan

ZINA

At first, Zina didn't want to name her unborn child because the profoundness of the act would only make her eventual pain even more painful.

But when she had been taken to the Cave Manor to meet her mother, she suddenly remembered the stories that Kelkov told her of the powerful, strong woman who was strapped in chains before her.

The woman who toiled for her own child for six years and still possessed the bravery to name her child even before she ever had one.

Kelkov had said that Luna Ameneris Screamers had long come up with names for her child should she conceive. If it were a boy then he would be called Zelkov, if it were a girl, then she would be called Zina.

In the face of her mother's profound bravery, Zina was suddenly ashamed of her decision to not name her child. Even as they spat horrible words to each other in an attempt to keep up with a dangerous act, that bravery of hers had not eluded Zina.