"I can get Cor to visit you."

"I swore not to try to arrange that."

"Or maybe I'll bring you a fruit basket or a list of names, we'll see what I'm in the mood for."

"Tireh said he's happy."

"We can bring back his parents and resettle his world and give him all kinds of cool toys and he likes having alts, sure he is."

"I will visit my alt."

"And pick a nickname."

"I need the list of names to make sure it doesn't overlap with anybody."

"I can rattle off the template nicknames from memory. Bells are Loki of Edda whose Arda is Elentári, Boots originally of Materia now residing in Warp by way of Telperion, T'Mir of Warp, Cam of Revelation then Hell through Space now vaguely itinerant, Iobel of Hex, Golden of Aurum, Gem of Wish whose Arda is Luster, Butterfly of Cube, Tireh of Beach, Miranda who is new and hasn't named her Arda but her home is Hazel, and now Cor - I'm Kib, from Stork, my Arda's Shine.

"Maitimos are Swift from Elentári, six Space forks called Cast, Decision, Current, Jewel, Leaf, and Robin, Mitros of Hex, Island from Shine is mine, Midnight I have explained, girl you from Ithil is Maitimë or Dream, Cube you is Matirin, Hazel you is Timothy, there was a you who insisted on getting dead-for-real and did not stick around long enough to be nicknamed, Luster you is Zenith because we complained when he tried to go by Doom.

"The Findekáno Space forks are Delight, Shard, Blessing, and Diamond; mine is Pterodactyl, Luster's is Dragon, Midnight named the Shadow one 'Forever' in absentia, Finleran is the Cube one, Finankar is the Hex one, Ferardrin is the Materia one, Fredrick is the Hazel one, Elentári's is Snow, Millennia's is Eagle, Ithil's is just Findekánë no nickname.

"Most other templates are few enough or manage to behave interchangeably enough that we haven't been on their case about it and their name variance is just what they start with. Although the child Fëanáros are calling themselves Epic and Hubris. Epic is the smaller and has wings, Hubris is human."

"I will be Sunlight."

"Sunlight it is." He fiddles with his computer.

"Anything else I can do for you?"

"I think we're good unless you want me to give you a ride to Shadow."

"Sure!"

It's five hops.

It looks pretty familiar.

"A thing that we wish Midnight hadn't picked up but have not gone to the trouble of prying out of his hands is in fact the teleport so he can presumably see you home."

"Thanks so much. Take care."

"Mm-hm."

Pop.

He goes in to meet the King.

" - hello."

"Sunlight. Apparently you might have a list of people to which I won't be spitefully denied access -"

" - yes, I do." 

They compare those.

"I'm doing better at keeping my head down and they wanted me to talk to you about it."

"You fucked up more. I'd stop being King if I had reason to think I was bad at it."