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"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes," says Ike. "That's really interesting. What do the rest of us have that you don't?"

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"Penguins, apparently. Demons. Dragons, I guess, if those are an animal? We also don't have that vaguely goatlike thing I saw wandering around with a single antler or whatever it was coming out of its forehead."

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"That would be a unicorn," says Ike. "I don't think we have unicorns in my world either. I also don't think we have dragons, but I wouldn't be astonished if I found out that we actually did have one or both of those."

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"Also I definitely don't know about any animals that live in my world but not on my planet," Lucas adds.

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"And your planet... is not Earth, right? So actually if you have an Earth in your world and you don't live on it, it would make a lot of sense if your planet had some subset of Earth species, because whenever humans made the trip in the first place they probably brought a bunch with them but it would be really difficult to bring every single species on Earth to some new planet. There are a lot."

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"Yeah, the planet is just called Samaria. So is the main continent. It's not as confusing as it sounds."

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"It sounds moderately confusing," says Ike.

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"It's usually pretty easy to tell from context. If you're sailing to Samaria, you mean the continent. If you're taking a spaceship, you mean the planet. If 'Jane' is helping then you mean the world."

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"Contextual distinctions!" says Ike, giggling.

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"Yeah. Maybe eventually the world will get renamed, I don't know, the Archangel-Elect is in charge of that."

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"Which is sort of weird," muses Ike. "I mean, not that I know any other good ways to do it, but it feels like naming entire universes should be a slightly more democratic process. Or at least more collaborative."

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"What does 'democratic' mean?"

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"Um, a way of making decisions where everyone has an equal say in the outcome," he says. "Roughly speaking. I could explain more but then there would be politics and that is not my area of expertise."

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Lucas thinks about this. "But how does it work?"

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"By approximation, most of the time. People decide on a bunch of options for something and then everyone says which one they like best and the option with the most support wins. It gets more complicated with more people involved."

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"Yeah, it sounds it. Why would that be a good way to name worlds?"

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"It wouldn't necessarily, I'm just not sure the way they're currently getting named is better."

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"Yours has a kind of funny name," says Lucas.

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"Yes. Sunshine. Because our vampires catch fire in it," says Ike. "I feel like we probably have better distinguishing characteristics than that."

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"What would you name it?"

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"I'm not sure," he says. "And there's the whole rest of the family to consider, too - they named Apollo and Helios after the theme. I think our most obvious distinguishing characteristic is probably all the different species of demons, and I'm not sure how to turn that into a name exactly, but if I could I would probably like it better than 'Sunshine'. Actually, come to think of it, I wonder if there is a name for our worldsheaf already in some local language? Thousands of species of demon makes for a lot of languages. I will ask Juliet to find out."

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"Juliet's... one of the Archangel-Elect's alts? I'm sure I've seen a list at some point but I don't have it memorized."

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"Yes! She is the one from my world. There are a bunch more but I also don't have the list memorized. One of them is a boy," he adds, blushing slightly.

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"A boy one? I don't remember hearing about that, wow."

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"His name is Cam and he is very pretty."

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