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Chacal's face lit up when Meerkat seemed to appreciate the names she'd listed. She didn't leap at the chance to list her own dream-names, so Chacal assumed that perhaps it was best not to press her. Meerkat had seemed to really enjoy being a mother, though she was still so hesitant about next year's litter. She wasn't even allowing herself to be fanciful, as Chacal was, even just for fun. She wondered if it was all really because Sobo had not warmed up to Njord and his growing family, or if there was some other reason. It did not occur to her that Njord would leave again, or disappear. She'd confirmed with him already, when he returned, that he intended to stay- and she felt that that should be enough. 

But at least Meerkat seemed willing to discuss Chacal's future children, and this pleased her. The dark jackal's features brightened when she suggested something that the Tanzanite had not considered. Neither she nor any of her siblings (to her knowledge) had had middle names or second names at all. She knew that names could be hyphenated, but she hadn't thought to give a child two names, in order to use the names she liked.  

"I like dis idea dat you come up wid,
it be very clever. 
Dat way, if I use a couple,
I won't be 'aving children forever and ever!" She laughed. 
"De t'ing wid names, though, is 'ow badly we use dem-
we name our children one t'ing, but den call dem somet'ing else," She said. After all, three of her children went by their nicknames, rather than their full given names. Only Theo had a name short enough that it did not get abbreviated further. She'd probably only used Suzu's full name a handful of times before she'd shortened it. 
"You 'ave ot'er names, like dis?" She asked, then. "Meerkat....?" She prompted, secretly hoping that Meerkat had a whole list of given names.