the nameless mates , went the fable , owing their namelessness to the atrocity they had committed , were deniers but unlike their wicked kind , instead of repenting for their evil ways and begging for a merciful death , they had shown the most flagrant contempt for the laws of lurien , pridefully declaring they would never become mates or makers , because they were something altogether different ( a thing there was no word for ) , and were bound to each other with unbreakable bonds of a feeling , also bereft of a word , which forbade them to let their substances unite .