Yeah. That'd be fine if they didn't want to. The whole thing here is that you should have control over things in your life. If kobolds all wanted to talk and didn't, that'd be a tragedy. And if humans wanted these kids, that'd be fine.

...you're missing the point and I don't think I can explain it without talking about things that'd really upset both of us.

Yeah. I'm coming at this from a place where horrible things were just taken for granted because look, nobody minds, that's just the way it is, just accept that it's normal.

She puzzles over this for a few seconds.

...and where those things could be solved, if people didn't think about them that way. And I'm coming from a place where lots of problems can't be, or where it'd be genuinely too risky to try to, and people have to learn to go on with life and be happy anyway.

But how can you tell if you're not even allowed to say out loud that the problems exist?

She leans against him. I mean - kobolds, that doesn't really come up? And if someone wants to go try to solve a problem like that, that might not make them very popular, but nobody's going to stop them, I'd know, I did that. Repeatedly. But, like... you mentioned having choices? The choice to say, okay, this is enough, I'm going to be happy with my life the way it is - that one's important, too. And hard to do, if people around you are freaking out about how bad things are.

The kids don't get a choice. 

To be alive? They don't get that choice either way.

To be brought into the world without anyone wanting them.

I think we're going to see less of that than you're expecting, if we can manage to keep the humans un-panicked about it. Probably not none, but, kids're cute, once they see the first few I bet a lot of them will want one.

I hope so.

It's not a problem that panicking them will help, at very least. We'll do the best we can, that's all we really can do.

Yeah.

Hugs.

Indeed.

And eventually she's calm enough to osanwë the other Eldar about logistics, and a little while after that she needs to go for lunch.

At which point he will go exploring the new-humans area!

Tyelkormo: such a Tyelkormo.

Lunch! And then she needs to break the news to Findekáno.

Hey. We learned something about the humans today, and everybody's been pretty upset about it so far, is now a good time?

Just a bit. And a bit later, what's up?

It turns out that humans - and also kobolds, so keep in mind that I'm coming at this from a different place than you do - can get pregnant without intending to.

Oh, no. 

Oh, no.

Sigh, hug. Yeah. I think it won't be a problem once they're used to the idea and have more ways to handle it - kobolds do just fine - but they didn't know, like, at all. I have some logistics worked out with the Eldar who've been working with them, but there's a lot of things we don't have good solutions to yet.

What do kobolds do if someone has a child they desperately don't want and won't parent well -

Kobolds do adoptions, practically by default - we lay eggs, that makes it really easy, humans don't have that advantage but if someone really doesn't want a kid that shouldn't be a huge problem. I don't know that there'll be more humans wanting kids than there are kids, but I think it'll at least be close, if we can get things set up to make it easy for them.

Let's do that. If it's - merely close - what about the remaining ones, should we take them in...