"...it might be nice to have one or two more floatgoats," says Deshi, "but I don't know how many floatgoats might be too many floatgoats. At least I don't know until I ask some... people, I don't know who."

"...More Petal?" she tries.

"Well, they shouldn't all be named Petal, wouldn't that be confusing?"

"No... zhoop," she says. "More Petal."

"You can zhoop?"

"Petal can zhoop!"

"But the other floatgoats won't be Petal, right, they'd be different floatgoats we haven't met yet."

"Noooo. Zhoop, more Petal!"

"What if you didn't zhoop them right away?"

"Then more floatgoat," she concedes.

"And then they wouldn't be Petal, right?"

"Right. Different floatgoat."

"And then if they zhooped with you the zhooped floatgoat wouldn't be Petal or them either, would it?"

"...different..."

Something about this line of reasoning isn't sitting quite right with her, though.

"Maybe there shouldn't be any more floatgoats till we're definitely clear on that? I don't want to disappear a perfectly good floatgoat by zhooping it to make more Petal."

"...doesn't disappear," she says. "Doesn't... is."

"Doesn't is?"

"Doesn't is!" she confirms. "Zhoop zhoop, all one."

"So it'd happen right away, before the other floatgoats were not-Petal floatgoats?"

"Right away before the other floatgoats were!"

"...wow. Do you want to be zhooped?"

"Want to be more Petal!"

"How big will you be?"

"Don't know."

"Well, if you get bigger you might not fit in your nest. So I think you should wait," says Deshi.