"How does it destroy someone's afterlife -"

"Well, if they get an abortion or kill the baby, which happens lots in the countries that do permit premarital sex, they're Evil and get eternally tortured when they die. And if they try to raise the baby no one will marry them and they'll live out the rest of their life in miserable poverty and they often miss Axis, though usually in the less catastrophic direction."

"And humans hate babies so I guess you can't just give the extra babies to people who want them?" says Ana.

"We don't hate babies."

"We don't have people lining up to raise strangers's babies."

"Amentans might be willing to adopt."

"With all due respect it sounds like Amentans will raise them wrong. There are lots of ways when we're richer and have alien technology to improve things but we've still got to get everyone we can to Axis."

"Elves are rumored to hate babies, maybe they should farm them out to Amentans till they can talk."

"I'm pretty sure this stuff doesn't happen to Amentans, the afterlife stuff."

"I'll want to check but it very well might not. Haven't seen any of you there."

"There are coming up on fourteen billion of us."

"It's possible virtually none make Axis, if it's rare enough for you to die as babies, but more likely you don't get our afterlives at all."

"Tapa murders a few dozen babies a year, sometimes one's very sick and they can't save it..."

"Not enough that I'd definitely have seen one, especially given that I might not've noticed. We'll check once Osirion finds us." He pauses. "They should really be here by now, though."

"Is there a way to make them hurry up?"

"I don't know what's holding them up if it's more complicated than Khemet thinking someone's got it in for him. Does he know you're not pregnant -" 

"It didn't come up while we were talking."

He frowns to himself.

"How will they find you?"

"They should look with magic and determine we're not in immediate danger and then land a lot of people and then contact me."

"The wards might be getting in their way? Though they didn't get in the way of all of you appearing here."

"I could go stand outside the wards if that'd help."

"Is that safe?"

"Should be, nothing here but grazing land. We're a bit away from the nearest Muggle village."

"How far do I need to go?"