"They're not allowed to have kids while they're on services because we don't want people using that as a way of saving money and then buying credits out from under people who pay their own way, or people using them if they don't need them, but yeah, it's really important to have a fallback like that."

"You shouldn't really have kids if you don't have enough space or food for them, yeah."

"Mm-hm. Population controls are basically a really large scale way of making sure people have space and food for the kids."

"It is weird that people won't just do that individually but I guess if they won't you have to do it as a society."

"Almost everyone will wait on kids - if they're not nineteen, anyway, sometimes they panic when they're nineteen and it's their last chance - if they don't have space and food now. But if everyone had kids whenever they had space and food, soon there would be much less space and food all over the world and people would start fighting over it. That used to happen a lot."

" - okay, maybe you also need people who won't start fighting, to do it individually."

"Then everyone would just be really cramped and hungry, and they'd still panic when they were nineteen."

" - no, see, if you're cramped and hungry you should not have kids."

"- right now a potato costs a fraction of a ni. That's really cheap. Nobody needs to be hungry. If they all took that as a reason to have kids, they'd have kids, and their kids would grow up and buy five times as many potatoes, and potatoes would get expensive or run out. Same for every other kind of food. We can predict that happening in advance, even though no one is hungry now. So we limit how many kids can be born every year. We have to coordinate to solve this problem, it can't just be about whether potatoes are cheap today."

"I still don't think my species would have this problem even if we were more impatient and wanted babies a whole lot but since you do have the problem it is good you solved it."

"Your species sounds great."

"Yours is doing pretty good considering how many Melkors there are and how you have the babies problem and no magic."

"I still don't think 'Melkors' is a good summary. Many Amentans are only a little bad."

"Okay. Many people who are a little bad."

"Yeah. Lots of little badnesses add up to be really complicated but we've gotten good at handling that, I think."

"Mmhmm." Snuggle.

Snuggle!!

And eventually he will fall asleep.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww (she gets a picture after making sure it's set to store only locally)

and eventually she will go to sleep too.

His mana recharges as normal! He checks this by bouncing gigglingly about.

Awwwwwwwww!

Does he want to teach her more spells?

That sounds like a great way to spend the morning!!

Marvelous.

Here is a cantrip for small illusions and a cantrip for temporarily transforming things! He needs special inks; he brought a little with him but not enough for teaching a new person magic.

Do you want to try teaching by osanwë to see if that works?