A knife, quick to the ribs, can have any name and sometimes several. Dirk. Dagger. Stiletto. A knife is only a knife even when its tip is red. An axe is sure, yet lacks subtlety. Axes have no formal names at all, only nicknames. Tom. Chopper. Old Thunder An axe doesn't care as long as its blade catches the sun. Knowing no lineage but the fire and anvil, swords must earn their names in battle. When chosen well, such names hold powers beyond the strength of mortal metal. A pen, sharpest and dullest of all, sprouts many names: sword, Tom, axe, stiletto. Somewhere between the point and the paper, in the silence of imagination, it takes your name for its own.