It's true, humans don't have children, and Kib does not even want to go abscond with a baby, even though he could totally interrupt a stork to do that since he invented them. But maybe one day he and Aydanci will teach servantmaking. That's a thing human married couples do is co-teach.

...do human non-married couples do that?

Occasionally, but not as often.

Frankly if one is going to wonder what Eru was thinking about anything to do with Kib's world there are places Kib would start before getting to that one. Like, sure, it was very romantic that ~Kib's wonderful husband~ eradicated a disease for him but the disease had to exist in the first place for him to do that and it sucked.

Yes, what a smart thing to do that was. ~Kib's wonderful husband~ specializes in public health stuff! Maybe Elves would like to help produce more of the golems that help maintain quarantines and distribute supplies.

Elves turn out to be amazingly enthusiastic about this.

Lovely. Waking a golem doesn't take long, so the Elf/servantmaker ratio won't be too much of a problem.

And Elves are very slow at golemmaking, though the resultant golems are heartbreakingly lovely.

...that's really not the point and it will slightly complicate adding the golems to existing fleets if they're not the same design as their legacy counterparts but, okay, Hresk doesn't have a fleet of these yet, it can have pretty ones.

They're willing to stick with the standard design if they can do elaborate gilding and detailing work, can they do that?

Detailing yes gilding please don't we don't want people attacking golems to get the gilt off and gold is still scarce in the human world.

Humans are so weird.

Humans have economic scarcity and do not care as much about things being pretty, if that's what they mean.

Humans might attack a medical golem for gold. That's just weird.

It would probably be, like, a starving human.

...in that case they should send the medical golems with gold, so starving humans can eat it. They didn't even know humans ate gold.

Humans do not eat gold and giving them gold will not fix the starving thing, gold can be exchanged for food because and only because there is not very much gold around.

Yes, well, they're on the case. There are those nice restaurants with the info sheets and free food, to start.

And no additional comments on Kib's husband are made.

Well, Kib can't stop commenting on his husband for more than a minute at a time (Operation: Flagrantly Married) (is this the tea shop? ~Kib's husband~ likes tea!) (etcetera) but he's glad that was over with so relatively quickly!

These will get glares and awkward shuffles but no comments, in fact!