Full Idea
We must distinguish 'reference' in a fiction from reference outside the fiction to fictional entities.
Gist of Idea
Fictional reference is different inside and outside the fiction
Source
Kent Bach (What Does It Take to Refer? [2006], 22.1)
Book Reference
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language', ed/tr. Lepore,E/Smith,B [OUP 2008], p.534
A Reaction
This may be more semantically than ontologically significant. It is perhaps best explicated by Coleridge's distinction over whether or not I am 'suspending my disbelief' when I am discussing a character.