shasali and aitim get dumped on stork
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"Babies just appear?????"

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"Naked! In the woods!"

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"What the shit?"

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"I have no idea!"

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"That's - that's - aaaagh!"

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"Don't wake Chalrew," she says, stepping back.

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Snort. "There are robots that go out looking for them. I'm going to figure out why robots aren't mass-produced."

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"Makes sense."

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"Also, since it seems like the whole planet is actually preindustrial, I'm going to find someone who should have electricity explained to them, get enough money to buy up a lot of land somewhere that's a good site for a city given that trains exist and not otherwise, invent mass-production of robots, build a city with adequate sanitation, figure out who's doing the storks and how to get all the kids that way, and try to have a kingdom and the internet back before I'm thirty."

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"Does this involve living in an individual house with adequate sanitation sometime before that or -"

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"Yes, of course, that first."

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"Okay, good." She pets Chalrew. "Poor babies.

I guess we can have as many as we want."

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"They'll have to adopt, though, or risk kids with full siblings..."

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"- I didn't mean - I mean, if they just appear, we can take home as many as we want."

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"Oh, yes, that we can do. Too many at a time and we're not doing anything different than a creche, but one or two every spring easily."

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Nod nod nod.

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"If we season properly here. Alien planet, who knows."

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"We probably won't. But it won't be so bad if there's always a baby or two."

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She gently puts Chalrew down and this time he stays asleep.

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Aitim picks up a children's book and starts trying to learn to read.

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A child helps him.

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He's appreciative. 

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When they have accumulated money by earning slightly more each day than their hotel costs, they can get recommendations for longer-term housing. There's a boarding house; they can't really afford an entire house to themselves yet.

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