And Isabella investigates the effect of Human Pregnancy Facts.

They are very distressed and spend the next hour crying.

Elves.

Yep, that's us. What -

I don't know what happens if I tell them high school health class facts because they cry! For! An! Hour!

Well, it's pretty distressing!!!

Crying for an hour doesn't help!

True, but most people are not very equipped to not grieve bad things because they're not used to ongoing bad things.

Bleah. I'm sort of tempted to tell them anyway but this impulse is at least five percent pure vindictiveness - Alex has a friend whose little sister died when she was a week old -

Resurrection's got to be possible under some combination of magic systems -

I hold out hope, but in the meantime -

Yeah. Sorry.

Anybody thicker-skinned I could try telling instead, even if their opinion wouldn't wind up steering the lot of them -

Most of the commendably sensible people I know have not commented on the whole mess yet.

Naturally. Sigh.

After a minute she thinks of some people for Isabella to try.

And Isabella tries them -

They stop crying after a few minutes!

...and sing for the next hour.

Elllllllves.

I think we're a much better-designed species than you lot.

Yes but singing for an hour doesn't help either!

All helpfully-inclined people have been staying out of this fiasco!!!

They were competent enough to assemble a campaign of viral scaremongering!

I think that was mostly competent human pro-life activists taking advantage of disorganized upset Elves.

Fair enough. Ugh.