"No he's evil and we're eight."

The boy looks understandably upset. "She keeps calling me evil!"

"You want to spear people!"

"I didn't say I wanted to. See, I try to help her with her evil dad, and she shouts at me! And she won't tell what babies are for!"

"Babies aren't for anything, they're not tools, they're people, people don't have purposes, and if you make a baby for a thing it'll be bad."

"Oh. So we're all right then."

"You said you wanted to make a baby for being awesome."

"I said the babies would be awesome."

"What if they're not? What if they're not like you expect and do things you don't like and then you won't love them and will think they're an abomination and will be mean to them and—"

"They'll be awesome no matter what, because they'll be Moira's."

Moira's expression softens a little. 

"And mine."

"...is that what you mean by awesome? Being Moira's and yours?"

"What else would we mean?"

"Are you doing the thing Hannah said where you pretend you don't understand a thing that you really do? And what did she mean when she said you were actually human? Are you really a Miracle or something?"

"My dad's a human. But my mummy was a mermaid."

"And that works?"

"Why wouldn't it?"

"'Cause of genetics, you can't have babies with a dog can you."

"...How did you find that out? And I'm standing here, aren't I?"

"Am I in a world without science or something? I'm not, Hannah said she's made of science bugs."

"Maybe we just don't feel like describing everything in the world in minute detail?"

"Why? That's terrible. Do you really not have recorders?"

"What I mean is, we don't sit around all day thinking up ways of telling little girls from other worlds everything."

"What does that have to do with anything? I asked if you don't have science because he thinks I had to figure out that I can't have babies with dogs instead of just knowing it because of science."

"Why didn't you ask these kind of questions when I said me and Moira were going to have babies?"

"Because I was asking the other questions."