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.
"Voa seems to have a really good track record, with one glaring exception."
"The two-per-family baby model kind of seems like the most humane thing to do, under the circumstances."
"Planets are in sight now, and it's not too late anymore. You'll get there."
"Yvalta's House system does not seem like the best way to run a country."
"There might conceivably be, I am not familiar with every single polity on my home planet, but also we have not reached the point of needing population controls."
"Yeah--we want children, but not babies in particular, which means unfettered our population grows a lot slower--like, I have exactly one sibling and this is not because my parents lacked the opportunity to have more."
"I've done it and I'm only three-quarters of the way through my biology degree?"
"I know but we don't want de-aging to scale until there are planets so I'm not worrying about scaling it until closer to then."
"Anyway, if that's something you're interested in we can make sure you learn it."