"Your Emily's going to be a Queen?"

"Talked me into building her a kingdom."

"How come you're not going to be a Queen, then?"

"Too busy with magic."

"And politics are terrible. Really. Anyway, Illia's going to be a queen and like half my extended family calls themselves Kings, I guess we don't get very excited by it anymore."

"That's kind of a lot."

"Yup."

"I'm mostly not reading you but emotions are harder I won't ask what the feelings are about if you don't want."

"The King was supposed to be my brother who has worked for it his whole life and would be stunningly good at it and he had to give it away because otherwise some people wouldn't try their hardest against the Enemy and the Enemy was more important but it was really hard and still is really hard to be the faithful subjects of idiots who don't deserve it."

"That's sad. Do you want a hug?"

"Sure."

Hug. This is theoretically slightly precarious since she's still being held up by her alt, but she was standing so close it's not really hard for her lower and upper halves to be supported by different people.

She's six and tiny, they can probably manage. 

What an adorably domestic picture we make. Anyone who walked in right now would probably assume we were her parents.

What do half-Elven children look like? I haven't been to Estolad yet.

She shows him images of some of them. They age slower than humans but closer to humans than elves, and they have ear shapes that are somewhere in between the two, and they generally have elven slit pupils but in their mothers' eye colors.

Awwwww.

Magdala Istanáro is going to be the cutest kid ever. 

Not necessarily! I mean, I'm not assuming she'll be an only child forever.

Seven might be a bit much. But I can't imagine being an only child not being desperately lonely. 

I wouldn't have liked to do without Illia, she agrees.

I want to say, like, four or five, but I'm not the one stuck having them, so I suppose it's your call, dear.

I think the primary concern for most women is that childbirth hurts.

I love you.

"What are you talking about?"

"We're probably going to end up having like five kids."