Nameless

Names.
They are never spoken aloud,
unless in dire need.
Funny,
I refer to my copmanions by name daily now.
Only children are called by their names.
By 100 years of age, they become Erasers.
Then they get a number.
After twenty years of Erasing, they become a Novice,
keeping the same number.
After thiry years of being a Novice, the children (they are still children)
become a Scribe, an apprentice of a Lesser Writer.
After fifty years of this, they go to The College to take their Writer's Liscencing Test.
Which takes fifty years to prepare for.
The young adults then get titles.
After their test, they become a Slight-Sub-Low Writer, and move up from there every fifty years.
Some tend to forget their childhood names.
But I never forgot mine.



And so, the story begins...