"No problem."

And Laithan can head back to his place to look over a proposed trade agreement with a particularly competent farming community.

The next day Laithan's house they are greeted at the door by a woman with two pupils per eye.

Wow that's weird. She tries not to stare. "Good evening."

"Hi, I'm Laithan's mom Iphigene - you must be Pealpe, and you must be Eefa. We've set up some snacks in the living room if you'd like to join."

"Pe-la-pe. Thank you, that's very kind."

Snacks consist of vegetable slices and hummus.

Eefa sticks to the slices, suspicious of the hummus.

Pelape tries it on a cucumber and finds that it's pretty good.

Laithan joins after a bit - he actually has a question queued up about that stats problem they were working on last time. 

"Do you want to play with blocks with me Eefa?"

Eefa looks at Pelape.

"You can make towers and cities out of blocks!" says Pelape encouragingly.

Eefa can investigate whether this is true for the time being.

And Pelape can teach statistics while it remains unclear if Eefa will be content with Laithan's parents for an extended period.

Eefa diligently figures out how to construct towers, much like she diligently practiced reading.

"Do you want to try relocating to another room at some point?" Laithan asks Pelape.

"I'll check in with her, I don't want her to be surprised by my absence and make it look like I'm abandoning her surreptitiously or anything." She'll go join in with the blocks for a bit and then says, "Eefa, is it okay if you stay here while I go have some privacy?"

"You're going to come back and get me?"

"Yes, I'm not even going to leave the house."

Eefa looks at Iphigene. Then back at Pelape.

"Okay."

"See you in a bit."

And then she can go off with Laithan.

Laithan certainly has no objections to this.

He's so convenient. "I'm sort of confused why this is so exciting for you, were you not getting laid before? I have noticed humans don't spring but I have also noticed that humans have sex sometimes anyway."

"Oh um uh....um."

"Ifindyouveryattractiveinparticular."