Snuggle.

Although I guess if he's in charge of everywhere then he has a little more explaining to do. And if he isn't then I suppose I'm not sure that he was entirely responsible for making me, at this point. There are a lot of me.

There are. It's very good.

They're all trying very hard.

They are! It's very impressive.

Little bit weird how they keep being in love with you, I guess.

Little bit. They are mostly in really bad situations and - I'm not blaming the mes, they're kids, they don't know better, but I think all of them have one story about why people might stick together and care about each other and it might be good if they had, I don't know, two. Not because they have a bad one, even, just - 

Nodnod.

As long as they're all happy it's good, I guess.

Nodnod. Snuggle.

Snuggle.

I hope the new one ends up all right.

Me too.

"Have a question," he asks Korva once they're away from everyone.

"Yeah?"

"Do you think I should introduce the new Imrainai to Fazil and Mahdi."

".... naively yes, but the fact that you're asking makes me slightly suspicious."

" - I mean, like, should they be discerning whether to marry."

"Seems a bit early for that? Extremely early for that. Although I guess I don't know what the new one thinks relationship timelines look like."

"I dunno either. If she were Osirian she'd want to get married right away so people can say the baby's just a little early."

"I don't think her first priority is keeping up appearances."

"That's not exactly - I guess maybe that's at least half of it."

"What's the other half?"

"Time together before the baby's born and everything's about the baby, time to - transition, mentally, to being ready to have a baby, support while she's pregnant, some women find it difficult especially the first time -"

"I mean, I acknowledge that pregnancy can be difficult. - I think I can't give good advice about this without knowing anything about how relationships work in her culture. I imagine she wants friends. I imagine she's scared.

" - if it were me I wouldn't be able to flip a switch and be ready to do - married person things, with someone. There's some reason to believe this generalizes to the other versions of me. I don't know what that means for what anyone should do. If you want more information I imagine someone'll have to talk to her about what her priorities are and what her vision of an all right situation is."

Nod. "I figured. But if you think they definitely shouldn't then I wouldn't want to bother her with it."