"Oh," says Havelock, with a prickle of wary understanding - but he holds himself still, and there doesn't seem to be a danger in this, not so far.

How must it be, to need to protect your own name, and what could you use another for, once given?

It's hard to say.

And the creature - Puck, and the name echoes very precise in his mind - did not have to teach him that.