"Who? How? To what purpose?"

"I don't know. But fucking Cthulhu?"

"I have no explanation for Cthulhu, believe me. Anyway, call me superstitious, but I don't want to name any islands R'lyeh."

"That is entirely reasonable."

"So what are some of the others?"

"Númenor's an island from the world of Middle Earth. I don't remember much of the history of it besides the name, it's been at least twenty years since I re-read the books. Lilliput has little tiny people on it who are alarmed to encounter a normal-sized visitor and overpower him with great numbers and tie him up. Oz is a magical land divided into four parts, one of which at the time the first book opens is ruled by a wicked witch who is dispatched by the little girl who is the protagonist and her friends. Myst is a video game and the eponymous island is full of puzzles. Wiaam is a sky-island inhabited by leftover technology from a lost civilization. Yüa is an island most notable for being made entirely of angelic cloud-fluff despite being located - both canonically, and after the movie became popular - in Hell. Metza-pa is a sci-fi island on Mars used as a political test site for various ideas the author likes to illustrate that way."

"What sort of a thing is angelic cloud-fluff, anyway?"

Cam makes a little puff of it. "Heaven's made of it until the angels carve caves out of it to live in," he says, handing it over. "It's interesting stuff."

"Of course. Of course there is such a thing as a 'cloud block'. Which is like that. But squishier."

Sable giggles.

"I think I'm forgetting some islands, but since I have forgotten them, I cannot fill myself in. Eh."

"There was one called Isell or something?"

"Ysail! Right. Island in a pocket dimension which lifts bits of itself into shapes convenient to the master of the Earthstones. It's a good movie. Well, franchise."

"I don't remember nearly as many fictional islands to name things after. I guess being twelve the last time I encountered a work of fiction will do that."

"I will have to put together a best-of list of Anglophone literature for you."

"And you've probably literally never seen a movie. They're sort of like - they have things moving on screens, like video games, but often they're recordings of live actors - though not always, sometimes they're animated - and they tell stories that you watch rather than being games that you play."

"That sounds like fun."

"Yeah. Are you going to focus on the Make Cam A Snazzy Fire Tail project or do you wanna watch one soon?"

"I think I'll try to focus on the snazzy fire tail for at least another day or so."

"Sure. You are very goal-oriented."

"I'm very distractible, so I'd better be goal-oriented or I'd never get anything done."

"I have yet to see evidence of you being distractable. Perhaps you've trained yourself out of it."

"I have a rule. Once I've decided to do something, I need a better reason than 'well, I thought of it' to decide to do something else instead."