"I don't expect that to happen for at least a year though."

"There's so much stuff to do right now!" 

"Yeah!" He wags. He checks his mail. "Mrindeh found a black orphanage."

"Cool. I hope she and baby do well." 

"She might want to settle near here, out of the way so nobody panics if she makes a replacement stuffed animal for one that goes missing or something."

"If we do manage to overhaul everything a head start on being around strangeness might be an advantage for the kid." 

"I'm expecting things to change fast enough that it won't matter much whether a given person sees it first as an infant or as a toddler."

"Well, fair." She considers this. "What do babies look like?" 

He finds some pictures. "We can ask Mrindeh to bring hers by if you like."

"I think I'd like that. I've never been around a human baby before." 

Cam writes to this effect. "Mrindeh says she'd be happy to. Also she's adopted the local name Maria Williams."

"What's the baby's name?" 

"She has an orphanage, not a baby. Probably she's picking them all up to see which one metaphorically speaks to her or something."

"Aww." 

"It's a big decision! I'd expect it to take her a bit."

"Yeah, it would be." 

"I have a preliminary house design, but can I give you, like, a tape measure, to make sure the dimensions for the whole thing will accommodate you okay?"

"Okay!" 

Very long tape measure.

Yeah this should work fine. 

"All right, stand back, I'm gonna put in a house."

House!!!

"You know, it's not that I didn't know it would take a lot of house to comfortably fit Lucy, but my goodness that is a lot of house." 

"Only most of it is designed to fit her, I didn't make everybody else's bedrooms accommodate her. But I did make a lot of bedrooms based on our current rate of accumulating people."

"Entirely reasonable. I do wonder what we'll manage to stumble across next." 

"I couldn't begin to guess!"