"Mmhmm, that's what we do with our things."

"It's funny that it'd be so similar!"

"I'm sure the principles are mostly the same; you don't want anyone getting hurt."

"It just seems like the kind of thing that'd take a while to work out and you're pretty low-tech."

"It's really not that complicated."

"Huh. I think it took figuring, here."

"Maybe it's because we've always had magic items - they're hard to make, but I think people have known how just about forever. A lot of the old legends have artifacts in them."

"I guess that could help somehow."

"We might've had longer to think about what to do with dangerous stuff, is what I'm thinking. Like, a sword is dangerous, but mostly only if you know how to use it, and anyone can throw a bead from a necklace of fireballs."

"Sure, I just think for most people 'okay, don't hurt people ever unless you're in like a war or something' works most of the time and when you get into hitting people for fun it gets weird."

"Oh, that would do it. Our world is a little more dangerous than that."

"I guess. Dragons and stuff. I saw those pictures of dragons you took and they were amazing. Do dragons like humans, because there's a bunch of humans here who've been, uh, wishing dragons existed, before we knew they did, my girlfriend's been hoping."

"Some dragons like humans," she grins. "Raafi can ask around, maybe." (He's blushing again.)

"I'll tell her there's hope!"

"She'll want to be careful, they're surprisingly fertile."

"Uh. What do you mean 'surprisingly' fertile? Like, more than random guys who haven't gotten gelled?"

"I'm not actually sure how they compare to a human that way; it's usually safe to assume that something with such a different body plan isn't fertile with us at all. But, no, half-dragons exist."

"So our birth control will still probably work but it's not like they can't possibly get her pregnant because they're dragons, got it."

    "Mmhmm."

"-gelled?"

"...I don't know the medical details, it's a squick, I asked to be sedated the whole time. It's set and forget birth control for the testicled population."

"-huh. And it doesn't... interfere, or anything?"

"Not unless they mess up? And then you just go 'hey, fix that' and they fix that. I don't know anybody whose gel got messed up."

"I'll have to make sure word gets around, then." (Kat gives him a comforting pat, which he leans into slightly but doesn't otherwise acknowledge.) "It's really interesting how many new things you have."

"I'm kind of surprised birth control hasn't come up yet! I guess maybe you aren't exactly hooking up with... world leaders or anything."

"Nobody's really caught my eye that way, no," Raafi chuckles.