"Yep, definitely."

"And one thing it looks like human children need is nonzero other children around."

"Oh."

"We have come up with options. If Idaia or Imliss knew anyone who wanted kids and would respond positively to an invitation to move to Milliways and up the schedule, that'd be the most Elf-palatable one from what I've seen. Option two is that my twin takes up single parenthood, which does not harm human children, and option three is a repeat of the current options. And we have time to come up with more ideas, this was just what we gathered on the first pass."

He hugs his wife.

She hugs back. It'll be fine. You were talking about abducting a preschool when we first found out, remember? None of the options on the table are as bad as that.

I mean, that's still totally an option.

I'm pretty sure we can do better. I'm going to be fine. Artemis is going to be fine.

Yeah. But -

We're going to be fine. We're going to be fine. Nothing like what happened to you or I is ever going to touch our little girl and we're in another universe where Fate can't touch us.

You had better be right.

Yeah.

You promised me a happy ending and I trust you.

Squeeze.

Mhm.

"You can create embryos with arbitrary DNA sources, right?" she asks her alt.

"Yyyyyes but especially under the circumstances I'm not going to offer anyone a baby fathered by Dead Historical Figure of their choice."

"Uh, okay, that wasn't what I was thinking at all--ask Circle if he thinks the people from Singularity are going to make it a problem to offer lesbians the opportunity to have children who were biologically both of theirs, was what I was thinking--or if anyone would make it a problem to offer people in polyamorous relationships the opportunity to have children with more than two parents, although you'd have to ask Imliss if she actually knows anyone that would be useful for because I don't."

"Oh, that's actually a really good idea."

She relays this to Circle.

Oooh, I can imagine that being popular.

Can you prevent the Singularity technical people from being rude to any gay people?

I don't really know. It seems to be a fairly deep-rooted thing.

Yeah, my hopes lie more in the direction of 'convince them to avoid the people and/or the topic' rather than 'convince them that the behavior itself is becoming.'

That I bet can be achieved.

Oh, good.

If we find any polyamorous people to take us up on that offer is that going to be a problem with your dad, Tyelcormo told me what happened to your grandmother.

I don't think he'd say anything. 

Okay, thanks.

"Circle says he's pretty sure he can keep the Singularity people from harassing anyone for being gay."