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Darklings don't really like numbers in general. Math is too new an invention for them to adjust to. They can't think in complex numbers like that. But, for some reason they like the number 12. It's never explained as to why, but my best assumption is that it's even and in nature symmetry is key. 13 and multiples of it just seem to work the best because it's an odd number after 12. So words with thirteen letters or groupings of thirteen letter words become weapons themselves. You could speak them out loud to harm a something as weak as a Slither, but naming weapons does more effective damage especially against Darklings. In the Midnighters Universe there are 25 hours in a day. The 25th hour is compressed between 12:00 and 12:01 AM, Darklings only live in that compressed one hour so change doesn't come easy to them. They're frozen 24 out of 25 hours of a day so it takes them almost a whole month to live a single day in their incredibly long lives. Change is hard enough when you live in normal time, but imagine if you couldn't keep up. The first cave man discovering fire, you'd be frightened of it.