Macalaurës who have not yet seduced a Rebecca feel that they have been issued a challenge. They get to work on it.
He goes to Eclipse and does research. Eclipse makes him feel very uncomfortable.
"And she's too Catholic to just go around having fun until a sufficiently kinky me turns up somewhere in the multiverse. ...'too Catholic' is actually a lot of the problem here, I can do either 'sincerely believes one shouldn't refuse their husband anything' or 'into some extreme stuff' but both is scary."
"Earth ones are often variants on 'there is a God, but he doesn't do things that would make that obvious, but if you do what he says then you'll go somewhere nice when you die'."
"The one that we got back so far decided she'd probably forgotten being in the afterlife."
"Anyway, it is very mean to resurrect a Rebecca without planning to marry her that very week, because Catholicism prohbits extramarital sex, and we'd like to get them all back now so the Catherines can grow up together - apparently Catherines get along splendidly with themselves -"
"Wow the extramarital sex thing must be rough. She didn't marry her version of orange boy, did she?"
"I think she wouldn't have had much choice about if if he'd been the same religion and wanted to but he's a different one so she was just supposed to go be celibate forever."
"Because I don't know, 'married and believes you can never ever leave a marriage' and 'outrageously low expectations' seem like a bad starting point for having, like, a kinky power imbalance as opposed to just a shitty one?"
"I feel like it'd be harder to notice if something isn't working if you have never ever encountered the working version of the thing."
"Rebecca didn't think she'd mind but I didn't want to count on that."