Lyra subtly leaned forward in anticipation for him to speak, fully expecting him to have known it all this time but never bothered to use it. However, when he opened his eyes and spoke, his response was anything but her name and instead questioned if it were something she would desire to call herself. The acolyte did a double take, it seemed like a ridiculous question and opened her mouth to tell him as such, but paused, her thinking falling deeper, her eyes settling on the ground just beside Emryc as she thought about his question.
Changing who she was called was never something she thought about, but she knew some Sith would take on a new name to represent their accomplishments, to better describe who they were. She did not identify with many who had been training all their life, perhaps she did not feel deserving of a new title or to call herself by anything than her given name. Lyra closed her eyes, falling into a moment's meditation.
If she had never went with Emryc, who would she have become? She was just hiding and surviving and when others would find her, she would have to recover, learn to survive all over again while feeling further defiled, undeserving, shameful and guilty. However, here with Emryc, she couldn't recall a time where he made her feel shameful or degraded, or forced to make a decision she did not want to make. She did not feel like the same girl who first walked into the nexus on Eriadu where she discovered the power and strength that was trapped and chained by a destiny set by others.
The acolyte opened her eyes, exhaling slowly, feeling a renewed sense of self, "I'm not going to use that name because it is not who I am, it is what others have made me." she spoke softly, but confidently. "I'll have to explore this later." she decided. Her gaze fell onto the dark that swallowed the path of the tunnel, the storm continued to rage on, the lightning seemed more intense. Lyra stood up and grabbed her pack, pulling out a small brick of a device and she turned it on, reading the numbers and meters that were fluctuating, "The atmosphere is unstable..." she said, watching silently for a moment before pulling out her holopad and connected a cord to the brick to record the readings, "Could be many things...natural environment...the salt flats don't help, contributes to a charge and its strong... can impact the magnetic fields like this reading here..." she spoke her thoughts out loud, standing in stillness before suddenly packing up.
"I'm ready, lets get going." she said pulling the straps of her pack over her shoulders.
@Sreeya