Naming

Sophia's POV

The naming ceremony was held the following afternoon, which was the tradition — the second day, in the presence of the Elder circle and the full council, the child's name spoken aloud and entered into the kingdom's formal record.

I had been awake for most of the night between his birth and the ceremony. Not anxiously — there was nothing about Soren that produced anxiety in me, which was itself a remarkable discovery, given that anxiety had been my primary orientation ...