



She asked him to meet her there so that they may escape from the temple in which he obliged. Before the boy turned twelve, the Girl of Mensah told him about a fishing village named Magiano and that a boat there left once every week for the Ember Isles. They played together and sometimes they would steal fruits from the altar when they were very hungry. There, he met the Girl of Mensah, the second malfetto in the temple, and they became very close friends. The malfettos in Domaccan temples were not fed enough so that the priests could communicate with the gods. One of the priests said that he has no need for a name. Magiano was once a nameless boy, a malfetto orphan who lived in the temples of Domacca.
