"He can do whatever."

"If he thinks it's worth talking about we might as well."

"Okay," he says agreeably. And they go over to where Circle and Cam are working.

"Hi, you wanted to talk to us?" she asks Circle.

"I wrote up a pregnancy announcement for everyone here who isn't, uh, close to or an alt of the two of you and did not get the news from Tyelcormo. Tyelcormo, you should pick a nickname."

"Been there done that in Beleriand."

"Okay.  Do you two have a computer, I can send the announcement there..."

"Not yet, I should ask my alt for one." By that did you mean that you want to use the same one as last time or that last time was unpleasant and you don't want to do it again?

It was illegal to say my name for five hundred years.

Hugs hugs hugs.

He sends them the draft announcement.

It is entirely satisfactory.

So he sends it to everybody. Also, he has congratulatory gifts for them! Neither of them are demons so this was really easy!  Here are matching necklaces with a stunning round bead at the center, in which they will be able to hear the baby's heartbeat once the baby has a heartbeat, and traditional Bremri baby clothes, tiny.

"These are amazing, how--I suppose you must have asked Bar for the clothes, but the necklaces, how..."

"Do you mean 'how does the technology work'? It's not magic - though I imagine you could dream yourself a magic version that was superior. It's just a fetal heartrate monitor in the form of a necklace, it'll need to be within a meter of the baby to work but around your neck will work fine, and then Tyelcormo's just gets signals from yours."

"And here I thought ultrasound was cool," she says, immediately putting on the necklace.

"Ultrasound is so 1420s. At least where I'm from."

"You're from space! Earth does not have reliable space travel yet! It's hardly surprising that you'd have better technology in other areas. What replaced ultrasound?"

"Better precision, less inconvenience of the mother required - computers got smarter, so they could filter much better for noise - computers got smaller, too -"

"Computers always get smaller," she nods. "How far along do you have to be before they can see anything?"

"She should have a heartbeat by six weeks, and they'll pick that up."

"Do you not have anything to replace the actual visual part of ultrasound?"

"Oh, sorry, I thought you meant what the necklaces will do. I have no idea what the general state of the art for pregnancy is."

"I shall have to find out."