I was frustrated. For so long I'd been trying to find my daemon and just ending up with nothing. The usual method didn't work for me - I'd imagine an animal and try to talk to it, but it would all be forced. Annoyed at myself, I lay down in bed and relaxed, trying to mentally reach out.
After a few moments of just thinking and waiting, I heard a "what the hell took you so long?" - well , I say heard. It was like I just knew it, like when you remember sound in a memory. You can't literally hear it, but you know what it sounds like.
I could imagine a crow fluttering out of nowhere to land on my bed, and I quickly jumped down and IMed my friend: "I FOUND HIM!"
Then it came to deciding a name. I let my fingers hover over my keyboard and type out "fath". The word was already forming: Fathom. We later decided that Fathom didn't really fit anymore, and went through trying different names, like Tuk, Krypton, etc.
His current name, Shaekriak, comes from the word "chakra", which I'd dreamt about one night. I was playing around with the word and came up with "shaek", and he added "riak". Formally I call him Shaekriak Fathom, but Fathom's really just our word.