The Bastard

man who saved me handed it over to the Orphanage when he left me there; it was the only

testimony of my origins. The Administration gave it to me upon my leaving the Institution

to find my own way in life. This is the only token of my family. Just a name, which may

be mine or my savior’s family or even some other unknown child’s that had fled the

Destruction. I have never been officially registered anywhere by that name; I am, like

you, “of unknown origins”.