"Do we know whether that'll be enough?"

" - I mean, if lots of food won't do it, lots of food won't do it here, either, right?"

"We have more food here than you'll find scavenging, and more variety."

"I'm not going to give you the note," he says. "You can stay the night and then I will."

"You can make him, you've been teaching him languages all day."

"Can I talk to you alone? Please?"

" -yeah. Of course."

Nod.

She goes back to their room. She's not sure where else is private. Maybe nowhere.

"Is your father right, that there'll be more food here? And - meaningfully more variety, if we leave today is there a good chance we end up subsisting on flowers for another significant length of time, given that we might not have time to scout for a location that has enough real food to last the night?"

"I - yeah. Maybe. Depends how fast we walked."

"It's not a risk to the other children if we stay here one night. It seems like - a fairly significant risk to the baby to not."

"A night is a really long time, you might not be imagining -"

"Well, then we'd only have to do it the once, wouldn't we."

"You're so unhappy here!"

"Yes."

"So we should go...not here."

"The baby could die."

"You're gonna die! And I don't want you to spend an entire night of the meantime feeling -" he gestures around.

"When I came with you, to fairy? I didn't know that you were good to people who were yours, or that you would care about not hurting me or whether I was happy. I thought it might be even worse than where I was. But it seemed, you understand, the only chance I had at protecting them. I thought whatever you did to me, you would not take them. They would be safe.

"That matters  more to me than life. And more than happiness."

"How much longer is it than the time we've spent together so far?"

"It'd be about - ten times as long, I guess."

Nod.

"I'm not going to drag you away if you think we should stay."

"Thank you. Wish I didn't have to inconvenience you so much, you don't like it here either."