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"That's all of us handled, then, the Adarins are behind," says Ice, gesturing at Darren and Edarial.

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"Is this a contest? I didn't know I needed to have a nickname when I woke up this morning!"

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"Nothing comes to mind for me. I suppose I could try to match Berathyme, but her name is rather hard to translate."

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"... Okay, I don't have any translation spell, so! What's it mean?"

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"It's a term in her language for the quiet, peaceful period after a gentle rain has subsided."

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"That's pretty," says Phix. "You could be, I don't know, Rain."

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".... Sure, why not."

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"That just leaves you," says Phix, elbowing Darren gently. "Come on, I didn't know I needed a nickname when I woke up this morning either."

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"There aren't many good plays off of peryton, though. Or possibly any. What do I get from that? Antlers?"

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"You already rejected Bambi -"

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Ice sporfles.

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"- so yeah, options are a little thin on the ground there."

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"If Bambi's the best my pedigree has to offer for nicknames, I'm not missing out on much."

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Cypress doesn't get the joke. He looks at his wife, obviously confused about the sporfle.

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"Bambi is a Disney cartoon deer who spends most of his movie being an adorable fawn with huge eyes," says Ice.

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He smirks at Darren.
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"Don't you say a word. Don't you do it."

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"Is he doomed to eternal silence, now?"

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"Yes. You are, too, actually, unless you don't actually know what Disney cartoons are, in which case - carry on."

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"But you could burst into song at every opportunity!"

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"That one's not a musical, if I recall right."

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"So, wait - I'm betting Chamomile movies include daemons, but do they include them for talking cartoon animals?"

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"Well, yeah. That's how you know that in the relevant fictional universe, the animals are people. The daemons are generally very small, and hide whenever a human character is around unless it's a setting in which humans know that their cartoon animal neighbors are intelligent."

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"... How do you tell the difference between the intelligent, talking animals and the daemons, in that case?"

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