"Anything else or should I send you on your way?"

"You said meals in the dining room but I don't know where that is."

He sticks his head out and says, "Can someone get one of the moms? Probably Alyssa?"

Alyssa, when she appears, is in her midteens and has a child old enough to walk. "Hi!"

"Alyssa can show you around," Lev says.

"Hi! I'm Rebecca but if that's confusing with the other Rebecca you can call me Laurel. This is Catherine."

"Hi!" Alyssa says. "I'm going to call you Laurel because the other obvious way to nickname one of you is to call the other Rebecca Old Rebecca and she haaaaates that. She's like 'I'm only 45'! This is my son Shadow."

Shadow clings to his mom's leg.

"Hi there Shadow!" says Rebecca.

Shadow buries his face in his mom's leg.

"He's scared of new people," Alyssa says. "We don't get them much here and, well."

"I'm a new person, I admit it."

Alyssa takes Laurel to her room!

Laurel's room has a bed and a desk and a closet and a window. A handful of items-- soap, a toothbrush (but no toothpaste), nursing pads-- have been placed on the desk. 

"We'll see about getting you some clothes," Alyssa says, "the other moms are doing a collection."

"Thanks! - I also gave birth like three days ago and I'm still kinda bleeding."

"That's what this is for," Alyssa says, pointing to a strip of cloth with velcro on it. "It's pretty self-explanatory, I think."

"...okay."

"Sorry, we were out of disposable pads by year two."

"I guess that makes sense. How do you do laundry?"

"You take your clothes to the laundry people and then they clean them," Alyssa says. "I'm not sure how, I'm not on laundry personally."

"Okay, cool. There's running water?"

"No, they use lake water, I think."

"Guess that makes sense. I just keep Catherine in the same bed with me?"

"It's usually easier to get enough sleep that way, although if you want a crib you can ask for one."

"I can make it work. And I can like - hand her off to get a little extra when she wakes me up a lot?"

"Yeah! Everyone on this hallway is a mom, if they have a sock on their door it means that you can stop in and hand off the baby so you can sleep. We also don't have to work as much because we have babies."

"Cool. How long's that last?"

"Until they're sleep-trained, basically, it's on the honor system. Although if your kid is three and you're still on mom hours Lev is probably going to talk to you."

"Guess that makes sense. Maybe I'll be married and have another by then though."

"Are you Catholic?"