"Probably when she is one or two." He looks wholly relaxed about Hagan holding his baby and the snake. "By then maybe she will have a baby sister or brother."

"Do tiny human children also like babies?"

"Most of them do! Also they fight and get jealous and steal food from each other and declare they hate each other, but - I think mostly they're glad of each other, and I bet they fight less if there's enough food."

"Heh. I remember when Sovi started talking, but we have a thirty five year age gap."

"I resented my baby sister but that's because my mother was sick, I think, and we are very nearly immune to that problem."

"I noticed the rings of sustenance."

"Best magic item for everyday life."

"Must help a lot with the thing where babies don't pop out knowing how to sleep."

"They'll usually give you two hours! I don't know what you do if you need eight. I mean, you hire people."

"One assumes! So you're teaching a class, what do we need to know about Law that you didn't manage to impart while we were wandering around together?"

"You are both hopeless cases. Hopeless."

"Belmarniss still thinks maybe neutral good'd be fun."

"I think halfassedly trying to be lawful is not actually the thing that gets you to neutral, though I admit I see why people think it works that way."

"What do you think would get me to neutral?"

"Stop by Nirvana, maybe? Get a sense of how they think about the world? Or - think of some things you specifically dislike about being chaotic that aren't purely instrumental and then steer away from those."

"I guess going to Nirvana could be fun."

"I'm down."

"They don't have a hopping tourist destination, though - what exactly might eat you in Nirvana, I suppose is the question, but still -"

"I think there's plenty that could eat you if startled or whatever but I bet we'll be okay, we're pretty tough."

"And it'll be a change from being eaten by demons."

"Thank you for the spiritual guidance," he says to Fazil.

He looks very slightly jealous. "Have fun."

"You don't want to take us yourself?"

"I'm booked for the next month."

"I think when that happens you're supposed to raise your prices!"