He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
Peka writes them down on her everything with the hand that isn't holding Katin to boob.
"Oh yeah, she's a really easy baby except for when she's hungry and that's a lot of the time."
"Well, at least you'll grow up big and strong, won't you? Yes you will!" Odette coos to Katin.
And after a little while longer of teaching magic and cooing over the adorable baby they leave and perform decontaminary pyrotechnics and a few days later they go to Illia's second interview.
They show up at her house at the appointed time.
"Hi! I liked your application. So there's something you should probably know, all things considered, but for logistical reasons we're not sharing it with the general population."
"Healing can do de-aging. We're not disseminating this until we've figured out how to do planets, but uh, given your motivations it seemed relevant."
"Yeah. But--okay, I don't think you should do it this minute, obviously you couldn't even if you wanted to. But I strongly expect we'll figure out planets within your lifetime. You don't have to be childless forever."
"So given your plans I'm not sure how relevant this will be but--" and she gives her the cautionary spiel she gave the farmer.
"Both magic murder and mind manipulation can be confirmed with magic."
"Normally we do but the relevant body doesn't exist here, guarantee of execution method isn't something my species mostly cares about, and there do exist provisions for letting the sentenced get their affairs in order of which childcare arrangements are one."
"I understand but it's very important to impress the seriousness on people. It's possible I'm recalibrating for a culture not used to it incorrectly."