Yeah but still.

Yeah.

Sometimes I think about people with guns coming for Katin if I hadn't met you and it makes me feel physically sick.

Yeah.

She's okay. She's okay and she's going to grow up happy and we'll do whatever it takes to ensure that.

Katin tipped onto her back, a foot in each hand, bewildered by her predicament.

Oh, gosh. She is so confused!

This happens if you sit up and then grab your feet! She didn't know!

Everything is a learning experience when you are a baby.

It's one of the great things about babies.

Yeah.

There are so many great things about babies! It's weird how aliens don't want them that much.

It's not that I don't want kids someday! But, like, the idea of wanting babies separate from wanting children...I want to see my kids grow up, there are great things about babies and there are great things about one-year-olds and two-year-olds and four-year-olds etcetera!

Well, yeah. I don't think people want babies who stay babies forever, that's not part of how babies are supposed to be and they would be worse at being babies. Although ones who grew up slower would be cool.

It just feels weird, the idea of being desperate for a baby with a two-year-old right in front of you.

Maybe when Katin is two I can tell you about it. Right now I am all babied up. I get the sex drive thing way more than the baby thing in spring anyway. Just, enough baby thing that I didn't get an abortion, when I thought I could make the money work.

Yeah. And being desperate for a baby when you don't have any kids makes perfect sense. Like, I am not, but I could imagine being, you know?

I don't know how aliens work in the baby department at all!

Fair! I dunno, Katin is being adorable in a very alien-baby kind of way.

It's funny that you aren't like bizarre tentacle giraffes or something.

That is odd! I suspect baby tentacle giraffes would also be adorable but in a less familiar way.

Eh, maybe.

Baby everything is adorable. Scientific fact.

Larvae are not adorable.

Illia locates some pictures of cute caterpillars on the internet and sends them to her.