They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
Even if it literally might kill you and will very likely result in bringing an unwanted person you're not prepared to care for into the world?
Yup. Hopefully not having a heat cycle helps with that, but we don't actually need to take the risk, we can just give them more detailed information than 'no sex at all'.
The face she makes at this is probably tremendously entertaining.
Hopefully we won't have to be that explicit; I was thinking more 'only this specific act is risky like that, keep it to other stuff'.
Oh, that I'm pretty sure they said, lemme check -
- yep -
- it's the same one that results in marriage for the Eldar, though you're not supposed to otherwise fool around lest you get carried away.
I would be pretty surprised if that varied, yeah. Some people aren't interested enough in people who're the same type for that advice to do more than slow them down, but slowing them down might be all we need, here; worth a try. Also some people're more flexible romantically and can make it work that way, might be worth mentioning.
I would be delighted to make an announcement.
Hey, so you know, he tells all the humans, it's a man and a woman that has this problem; if the men fuck men and the women fuck women you're all set. So you know.
The kobold covers her nose with her hand and closes her eyes for a moment. You are delightfully straightforward, Tyelkormo, she says tonelessly.
Valar say it's evil to have sex like that, outside marriage. So, like, as far as I give a shit what they think which is not at all, that's a thing.
...I might be missing some things, here? I only have a pretty vague idea of how things work for Eldar.
Uh, okay, so a man and a woman, if they have sex, are married, everyone can see it. That's the only acceptable kind of intimate conduct, a nice wedding after a yearlong engagement. People occasionally screw around but you're at least supposed to pretend you don't. Two men together, or two women together, is super evil, say the Valar.
Not sure I'm catching the actual significance of 'married'. It seems a little bit like partnerships but not entirely. Also did they say why? Because that seems pretty bizarre to me. Maybe less if you all know what each other are from the start - also super weird - but even then.
I mean, I think morality is bullshit, but the argument is that Eru designed us and designed sex for a purpose and you're not supposed to do it recreationally.
Not hurting people isn't bullshit, but that sure sounds like it is. Unless I'm missing something again, but it doesn't sound like it, 'recreational' sounds pretty harmless to me.
So, let's say there's something that's meaningless, right? Like, I don't know, putting a flower in someone's hair. But then everyone decides that putting a flower in someone's hair means you're claiming them as your property. Now, it's not that it's wrong to put flowers in peoples' hair, exactly, but lots of peoples' reasons for wanting to do it will be caught up in that, and that's how other people will interpret it even if that's not how they mean it.
And that's how the Eldar think about two men sleeping together.
Ugh. Okay. Important to know, thanks. Do you know of anyone who could be trusted to keep an eye on the humans and make sure they're not picking that idea up somehow? Not that I have a good idea of what to do about it if they do.
Okay. I'm keeping an eye on them anyway, I'll probably notice eventually if it happens.
In the meantime, the problem at hand. The Eldar who're here probably have the best idea about how important the other things are and how long they'll take to arrange... I can be back as early as this afternoon to check the possibly-pregnant people, if they can get enough of them together that quickly, but I don't expect them to - if they don't have anything else for me to do I can get those plants - probably won't have enough of anything for more than a few dozen people to start with, but I can magic 'em to regrow fast... I should probably just go talk to them but I don't especially want to.
Touchy subject. Not so much the accidental pregnancy thing as how they were handling it; I was hurt really badly by people making that kind of mistake, once.