Time goes by. Kib has dreams.

He gets confirmation firsthand that Aly invented storks!

"How long did that take her? It's such a big project..."

"I don't have the whole process, but a few years."

"Did she think about the population problem - it'd be a bit premature -"

"We had the opposite problem then. City people don't find as many kids as nomads or farmers or woodcutters. There was a draft in some cities sending people hiking. Not Lapis, there were enough volunteers, but still."

Nod. "Poor babies."

"That wasn't really the motivation of the draft but yeah."

"Do we know if babies drop in the ocean?"

"They don't wash up on shore, and boats don't encounter them floating, but we have no way to be sure."