James shook his head.

"Why don't I name it?" Thea suggested.

"Um..." James looked at Thea, perhaps a little miffed. "Darling, I..."

"Do you want a kid or not?" Thea puffed her cheeks and playfully threatened, "You did the job, and I get to name the thing. Isn't that a form of love?"

Resigned, James asked, "What do you have in mind? I don't want anything that sounds stupid."

"Jademora Empire," said Thea viciously.

James almost screamed, "Thea, do we have to be so shameless? Okay, I am, but you don't have to learn that. It's not a good trait!"

"I want that name!" Thea gave James a withering look. "I like it!"

James held down his dismay. "But I mean... this is something bigger than the Greater Realms."

"And I want it to be called the Jademora Empire!" Thea interrupted. "Is it a yes or yes?" She gave him a look that said, 'If you say no, I'm going to cry!'

James gave in. He swung the Xurraeus Hazeaf Brush at the Yin Fish, and a beam of brilliant sacred radiation shot into the spi