"...but where do you get them?"

"Uh. Word for the thing Shasali and Awiki and Kemi are, that you and I no -"

"We're men and they're women? What does that have to do with anything?"

"To have a baby a men and a women sleep together. Then the woman has a very small baby and it grows here." Gesture.

"...are you saying there's a foreign country where people breed like animals?"

"Ew!" says a nearby kid.

"...people are animals."

"No we aren't!"

" - okay. Well. In Anitam yes, that is how babies. Here babies appear in the country and maybe die?"

"Yeah - wow, that's gross, remind me not to hook up with Shasali -"

"Doubt that would work that way and spring almost over but okay."

"Spring?"

"Only can have babies in spring."

"I think this is all I want to learn about weird breedy people."

"How many babies die?"

"No idea. Fewer since stork golems started flying around."

"Stork golems?"

"If you work here longer you'll see 'em, these days most of the babies are from them. They go find 'em and fly 'em to creches."

"That's good."

"Nobody knows who invented them, it's weird."

"Do they know in the country that makes the robots?"

"...everybody makes servants. I mean, every country."

"...how?"

"They get an apprenticeship for it and learn how?"

"Anitam no golems, and Anitam -" he glances at Shasali - "trying to golems for a long time with many people. As far as we know, golems really hard. Harder than lots of things Anitam yes, harder than talk to everyone in the world at once, harder than save people who lose both legs and build them new ones, harder than put all books in the world on metal that fits in your pocket, harder than teach that metal all the languages in the world."

"...I think you're pulling my leg about all this," concludes his co-worker.