(Persica glitters.)
"What should I call them? 'Aianon and Ansharil' takes longer to say."
"I think Sarion says 'my beloveds'. Which isn't any less weird, but I already got used to it and now you're saying a different thing."
"Why not? Is it because it's sappy, because it is totally sappy."
"All right, maybe. Not that I don't feel sappy. But I don't need to go around advertising it to everyone."
"Awwwwwww! Oh hey did you hear Sarion's going to marry them?"
"And Angela's gonna officiate, an angel is going to get a demon and an elf and a dragon all married, it's hilarious!"
"Oh, at home, demons - not like all the millions of kinds Sunshine has so much, red ones with horns and tails and wings just exactly like Aianon pretty much - and angels, basically like Samaria angels only with halos sometimes - are kind of, like, mythical opposites? The angels are the good guys and the demons are the bad guys."
"We don't actually have either thing and so far the worlds with demons don't have angels and vice-versa, but it's still funny!"
"There's this thing - people don't actually believe it but like in cartoons and stuff if someone is trying to decide between a good and a bad choice, they get a tiny little demon and a tiny little angel, one on each shoulder, telling them what to do. Sometimes I call Bella my shoulder angel. My shoulder Bella, anyway."
"There are legends here of the Dark being able to influence people in a similar way, but unfortunately I think those are true. And we have no angels."
"Well, since the shoulder angel and shoulder demon idea exists and everybody recognizes it, there are cartoons that, like, play with it, making it so there's only the one of them if the person is very good or very bad, or having them fight each other, or whatever."
"Ansharil sometimes turns into the Samaria kind of angel," he mentions.
Lexi thinks about this. She tilts her head. "Okay, that's kinda weird."