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He sleeps a lot here and at sort of bizarre times, but he wakes up at the sound of his door opening. 

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"Hey, it's okay, you can go back to sleep, I just wanted to check that you're okay."

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"I sleep a lot here. I'm okay." 

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"I'm glad. Sleep is important."

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That gets a smile. "Believe me, I know." 

He pauses, thinks about it, and then opens his arms for a hug. 

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Cascadilev hugs him. 

"I really do want to take you back to Cascadia with me."

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"I like the idea, I just — wish I could tell my parents goodbye and where I was going." 

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"Yeah." Cascadilev keeps hugging him. "You can go back to your home world too, it's your decision."

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"I'm getting full nights of sleep for the first time in months and there's enough food and there are people who speak the same language as I do and the hospitals work and nobody trips me in the halls or calls me slurs." 

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"Yes. --And no one in Cascadia is going to hate you for being gay, which is maybe not so important now but is going to be a big deal in a year or two."

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He is still really not sure how he feels about that. "Yeah. And that." 

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"...Do you know if magic is genetic?"

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"...I think most wizards have wizard parents? My parents aren't magic but I think that's not usual." 

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"...If you come to Cascadia people are going to really really want you to donate sperm."

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He tilts his head but isn't sure how to put the question. 

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"There's a fertility crisis, so we already have a lot of societal infrastructure for people not being genetically related to their children. And-- it's magic. Lots of people are going to want their kids to be magic. Cascadia is going to want to have the world's only wizards."

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....that doesn't really answer the question he wasn't asking but he nods anyway. 

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"You're confused."

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"...I'm not really sure what my question is but I'm confused." 

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"Uh, well, when you're a bit older, if you wanted to, you'd jerk off into a cup, and they'd freeze it, and then when someone wants to have a baby they'd unfreeze it and put it in their vagina and they'd have a baby who was related to you but you wouldn't have to do any parenting or anything. And in exchange for this they'd pay you a few thousand dollars-- uh, I can't convert from 2047 dollars to 1988 rubles in my head-- but you'd get enough money from one time of doing this to pay for, like, a trip to Disneyland or 25 meals at a restaurant or a robot that automatically vacuums your house--"

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That's.... still really weird but, "Okay." 

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"And it's easy for us to do this because lots of women in Cascadia don't have ovaries that work, so we already have a system for people using gametes that aren't theirs to have kids, so it would be pretty easy to change it so people are using sperm that isn't theirs, or both sperm and eggs that aren't theirs. --is this helping at all, I am basically trying to explain random things related to sperm donation to see if it would help-- uh, you wouldn't ever have to do it, no one would make you, Cascadia feels really strongly about not making people do things, if you really didn't want to people would probably just offer you more and more money to do it--"

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"I still think it's weird but I'm less confused than I was." 

He and Lev should be cuddling now. 

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Smolsha cuddles are a very good thing.

"And if you don't want to-- uh, you'd probably have to pretend not to be magic if you didn't want a bunch of dirty looks, but I'm totally okay with fucking over Cascadia for your sake and if I weren't I wouldn't have offered to take you to Cascadia. Honestly, if you immigrated we should probably not tell anyone you're magic for a year or two anyway, keep the option open."

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He nods. "That makes sense. — I don't think I don't want to but I heard about this plan five minutes ago so." 

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