"Retirement from what?"

"I dunno. But if I figure it out I will retire from it."

Ranata laughs.

"It would be the best day ever," says Zeviana loftily. "Adarin would turn bright red at the slightest mention of it and it'd be hilarious."

"Would he really? If it was merely alluded to that you had a harem."

"If he knew I actually had one? Yes. If I was just joking around he'd roll his eyes and go back to whatever he was doing."

Ranata chuckles. "I don't see why."

"Because he's a prude. He does strange things because of it. When he caught me with an ex of mine he avoided me for like a week."

"That seems extreme."

"Well. I think it had more to do with what he caught us doing."

"It seems extreme regardless unless what he caught you doing was vivisecting small animals."

"Pretty much. But then I got snippy about if it was because I was with a girl and he just looked at me like I had grown a second head and said something along the lines of, 'What the hell does that have to do with anything?' So I forgive him."

"So it's all right for him to be a sex-negative prude but not a homophobe, understood."

She giggles. "Yes."

"I take it homophobes are a huge problem where you're from."

"Yup. Also people wanting me to have their magical babies. So here's better!"

"Not interested in having kids, I take it."

"Eh. I don't see myself as a good mom, and it's not like I can have kids with women?"

"There's been some efforts made to allow it with magic, but not success so far."

"Yeah. I mean maybe there's a way with my magic, but we haven't figured it out either. If it becomes important to me I might get to researching it, but as of right now, don't want to."

Ranata nods. "That's entirely reasonable."

"Thanks! Besides, I'm still kinda young for kids. I don't even know what I'd do with one. I'd just hold it awkwardly and be like, 'Um. Help?'"

"Well, there's not a lot to be done with them when they're babies except coo over them and keep them fed and clean - which is plenty time consuming - but then they grow up and bring home their extraplanar boyfriends and casually talk about colonizing Mars, so."

Zeviana laughs. "And then you befriend their extraplanar boyfriends' sisters, right? That's how this goes?"

"It is! Bow to my wisdom and experience, whippersnapper."