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“You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him, Mulan,” he told me when we finally met, when I was all but grown.

“Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.”