Chapter 6 of The Heart's Landscape

The Name for Its Own Sake, first chapter of the second part, so maybe everyone who was wondering if I'd abandon it will relax now. I'm slow, but I am not faithless, for the names of my readers are written on the palm of my hand. (Anyway, it's only like three weeks since the last update! And I was in the hospital and not writing for one of those weeks, which means I am ON FIRE.)

Words not recognised by OpenOffice's spellcheck:
wasabi
Toyotas (got a problem with the Japanese, OpenOffice?)
headbutt
subarachnoid
MedicAlert
telepath

[Read from the beginning.]