"I guess."

He heads off to sell the rest of his spells.

She can spend the rest of her day at work doing normal work things until Hagan comes to walk her home.

He does that. "How was work?"

"Fine. Kid has an arm now."

"Two, one hopes?"

"Yeah. Ten fingers, ten toes."

"Wonder if the parents will come back."

"Dunno."

"Guess you probably think they don't deserve him."

" - hmm?"

"You got a weird impossible kid who was an enormous liability and you took really good care of her. For a long time. With no friends."

"I guess. I dunno that that says anything about anyone else."

"I think most people suck but like - maybe they suck for one-armed kids and not for other kids, you know, and it's just a shitty roll that they got a kid with one arm."

"I really don't know anything about anybody else's circumstances. And it seems kind of silly judging people, considering, like, everything about me."

"What about you?"

"See I thought that was pretty expansive, with the 'everything'."

"You think that the world is doomed and we should resign ourselves to this? You haven't worked very hard to preserve your eligibility for Osirian marriage? You - honestly I'm not even thinking of anything else -"

"I feel like a lot of people would not have difficulty finding reasons to judge me. And, like, I dunno, maybe I can find just as many reasons to judge other people, but maybe I have better things to do with my time. At least about, like - leaving your kid in an orphanage is gonna be human weakness, you know, not some deeply felt belief that kids should grow up in orphanages. And, yeah, obviously humans shouldn't be as weak as they are, but you don't fix that by going around making proclamations about what people you've never met do or don't deserve."

"Hmm."

"What."

"Dunno. Think you're neat."

"Huh. Well, I guess you're entitled to."

"I am."

"You're not allowed to kill one year olds, you know, it's not, like, heroic or anything if you don't."