She looks very tempted to bring along one of the little boys but doesn't say anything.

Then they can hop an automaton with just Kalatha.

The automaton is not particularly comfortable but it does the job.

Wrebb is much cleaner! It looks richer in general, but still preindustrial.

Much cleaner is great! Is there a creche at which they can apply for employment.

Several! Most places have at least two. Wrebb has five.

He has a distinct accent still but can speak in complete sentences. "We just arrived here. Are you hiring?"

"What position do you have in mind?"

"We'd like to work with younger kids, if that's an option."

"You're not the kind of person who likes to read them stories and won't change diapers, right?"

" - that's really bad for them, they get rashes."

"Yeah, but some people only want to do the fun parts and it's a problem."

"I promise to be very responsible with children in my care."

"Okay. What's with the one your girlfriend's holding?"

"Where we're from, people like babies more and they raise them at home instead of in creches. Though some people take them to a creche during the day so they can work."

"Huh. Seems like you wouldn't sleep much."

"I think it's been harder on Shasali."

"You're a sound sleeper?"

"And don't mind as intensely if she's crying."

"Well, if you wanna keep one in your house, more power to you. You can bring her to work. We've got jobs for both of you if you take night shift, it's never popular, I can take one of you for the day shift and refer you to another creche for the other job if you don't want to be up in the dark."

"No, that's fine." Higher stress-related mortality in the statistical aggregate but he was never really planning on a stress-free life.

And they are shown the ropes and given an introduction to the creche policies and shown the back stairs up to the roof where they can collect storked children and shown how to summon a medical golem and so on.

And can they afford a house with indoor plumbing?

Not right away, but they can sleep in the creche while they save up and look for deals.

Aitim is very unhappy but it helps to have a plan to make things better. 

Are there greens in Wrebb who should see a pocket everything and get a meticulously hand-copied copy of his recollection of engineering?

There aren't exactly greens. But there are engineers!