It means she looks like this-- she sends a picture --and sounds exactly like Otet barring accent and stuff, and has a twin sister who looks and sounds just like me, and their personalities are weirdly similar and they have a parent who's a geneticist and it's super weird.

That's so weird!!!

It is!!!

I wonder if there is an alien me.

I will try to find out when we get home. Luckily we have no population controls so it's probably not a catastrophe that I didn't notice her to save her Katin if there is one.

There probably aren't alien most people since there's more of us.

True but you are particularly excellent.

You're sweet.

Thanks.

Meeting an alien me would be fun. We could hook up.

I admit I had not yet thought of that with respect to Amentan Me. Otet won't, she's straight.

I get straighter in spring but not all the way.

Huh. I guess that makes sense, with the babies thing.

People who are any amount of straight get more straight in spring, yeah. People who aren't don't.

We basically don't have a thing like that. We have a thing where same-sex couples of opposite genders will cohabit to go in together on baby-making and child-raising, but reproductive drive and sex drive are mostly decoupled, aliens do not get straighter when they want babies.

We do that sometimes.

It's a sensible arrangement!

If you find people for it, yup.

Yeah.

Also, magic can do same-sex conceptions. You need someone to carry it, still, if they're guys, but genetically speaking.

Oh cool. You could market that.

Yeah, that'll scale more when there's more mages around but having another source of revenue is good.

auction off ten or something for rich southern hemisphere folks coming up on nineteen

Good idea. Any thoughts on how to announce it?

No idea, never been in a position to advertise

Mmkay, I'll probably ask the greens.