"How?"

"More resources. Who placed an order for materials in these quantities, who among those didn't sell enough golems to account for their materials. Talk to their teachers, ask 'is that the kinda thing they'd do.'"

"I mean, you could probably go around talking to all the servantmaking teachers in the common-speaking area, if you really want."

"That sounds fun for other reasons!"

"Bet you Shasali makes you leave Kalatha home."

" - true." He makes a face. "Bet I can't convince her to come, either. You know, I think Shasali would be entirely happy just watching lots of babies and never even reinventing the internet."

"You and Shasali are very different people."

He asks Shasali how she would feel about his taking one of the babies once they adopt two babies on a tour of common-speaking countries talking to all the servantmaking teachers.

"If we have two at once they'll be like twins and shouldn't be split up."

"You could come too."

"I make most of our money."

Sigh. "I could take Kalatha and leave the new babies?"

Frown.

"I won't be hitchhiking, it's not a dangerous area - I don't think it makes sense for both of us to stay right here until we're twenty or there's proper rail everywhere."

"How long a trip is this?"

"I could do it in chunks of two weeks."

"...fine. Kalatha after we have new ones."

Snort. "Thank you."

"When are you going?"

"Once we have new babies, I guess."

"Do you have any ideas for how to pick?"

"Not really. - I've been kind of wishing some had blue hair, which is silly..."

"Yes, if you want that we have to homemake them."

- he glances at her.

"I don't relish the prospect and I don't know how many tries it would take to get a blue one but it's an option, at least for the next several years."