"Strips of cloth wound over the relevant areas are also viable."

"Well, then you should be fine, we have effectively unlimited supplies of cloth unless you want to fill the lake with it or something."

"They're not what I'd call a great long-term solution, especially since I think all of us are going to want new clothes at some point, but between them and the heavy gloves I'm not worried about that particular brand of modesty for the moment."

"Yeah. I'm sure there's some way to make needles and thread, I just haven't found it yet."

"Worst comes to worst we could pick apart fabric for thread and I could probably eventually carve a piece of hard-enough wood into a needle."

"That sounds, uh, difficult."

"I did say worst comes to worst. I bet we could rig clothes that don't need to be tailored, though--hmm, is there variance on the size of the cloths?"

"Not much."

"At least they're relatively large, then, and we can cut them smaller."

"Yeah. Or do a whole lot of pinning. I hear that works."

"Be more awkward, especially for dressing the Spontaneous Babies."

"True."

"Especially especially for diapering the spontaneous babies, gosh, I am not looking forward to that."

"Wow, uh, yeah."

"I mean it's not like I wasn't planning to be a mom someday or that I didn't know what that was gonna entail, but this is not how I pictured it going."

"I've always kind of assumed I was going to have kids eventually, somebody has to inherit my family's lands, but, yeah, I didn't picture it like this either."

"Your family's lands?"

"Yeah, we have like, some mountains. They're nice mountains."

"Are you a noble?"

"Maybe kinda yeah."

"Makes it more complicated that you disappeared."

"Yeah. I mean, Haela will be fine without me. But yeah."

"I'm sorry. The fact that you ended up here has got to be way less good for you than us."

"...yeah, that's... true."

"Everything we'd've lost by coming here we already had, and you're--amazingly helpful. So. If there's--anything I can do to help, if you need a hug or a sympathetic ear or anything--"