"How are you doing? We all watched the concert video, it was absurdly cute."

"Everything is awesome."

"Oh good."

"The kinky one will probably also think everything is awesome. I don't think being kinky would make her depressed or anything."

"And even the horrible dying doesn't seem to have made the one we fetched back depressed. She was very - well, I'm alive now, baby is alive now, that's all great then..."

"Was it very horrible?"

"It sounded absolutely horrible."

"Well dang."

"Do you think she'd rather have, like, some time alone with her Catherine, before there are dramatics..."

"Uh... did they die at the same time...?"

"No."

"Who first, is this like, two year old Katin whose mom died a year before -"

"Catherine was three months old and died first, Rebecca a few months later."

"Yeesh. Yeah give 'em a couple hours."

Nod. "Thanks." 

He heads out.

He squeezes Peka. "It was really hard not to race over there and drag you both home right away."

"That would've been good too but this was so exciting."

"And you were safe. That's important, that you're safe."

Snuggle. "I love you."

"I love you so much."

Kisses!

Reds accumulate in droves in Ambaróna and are avid consumers of social gossip regarding the "red princess".

Local administration is a bit overwhelmed but cheerful enough about getting all their new citizens armbands and bank accounts and apartments. They have heard all about the red princess. "Very, ah, dramatic of him."

"Dramatic?" asks a red.

"It's terribly romantic but I have no idea how people'd explain it to their children if they were watching - hairpetting in public - he should really have married her first -"