Cam catches a summons while he's in the middle of Atriama. He's seen it before, it's fine.
Two of them seem probably positive, the other is - definitely overwhelmed? It's not very clear.
Just under half of the batchees head straight for the lie-down building. One of them requests a book first and then a few other people pause or turn around to ask for one as well.
Only a few of them manage to come up with specific titles they want.
The rest of them can have... uh... coffee table book type things full of landscape and wildlife photography?
Sure, that causes most of them to start wheeling away, until a newly-teenaged guy asks whether there's music on offer and half of them stop again.
He pipes some strings into the built-in speakers in the lie-down building.
That group rolls off with a smattering of 'Thanks's, sniffles, and 'Dankci's.
The one who asked to be made prepubescent wants to know, "What are the laws here?"
"Work in progress, is there a specific controversy you need a ruling on right now?"
"Am I legally an adult or a kid? Or is there not going to be a difference?"
"You are an adult what with having an adult soul! You should probably apprise anyone you are going to have sex with, if applicable, of the situation, to avoid awkward misunderstandings."
"Okay." He rolls off into the city, a bit more briskly than everyone else has been going.
Jawclick lady asks, "What about star clouds, I heard those were going to be here later? What if they're a mix?"
"I don't have a principled intention for those! Might depend on their average age or something. Felicity is apparently part child but seems functionally adult to me."
"Does time spent dead count as growing up, for an all-kid cloud? What are the legal differences going to be anyways, approximately?"
"I don't know what all-kid clouds are like developmentally, nor what the practical upshot will be - something something reduced culpability for wrongdoing, educational responsibility on the part of the community, if they're really little might need a guardian?"
"Do you have any idea - I know it's a tough case, I won't hold you to anything, but I had a kid, died when he was six years old a few years ago, now he's in a cloud with eight other kids and some teens, do you have any general ideas about - custody, or timelines, if they want to come back -"
"- hoo boy. Uh. So, clouds need multiple bodies and they then do a sort of multiple location thing. I think probably the most elegant result would be if one of those bodies lived with you and - mostly drew on your previous relationship for determining how to interact with you? - but I have no cultural understanding of star clouds, I'm making this up as I go."
"If more of them want to live with me would that be fine with you?"
"Sure! I can't guarantee it will be fine with all of their other parents but if you want slightly dilute triplets or something and so do they far be it from me to interfere."
"Also please note that we currently only have the ability to resurrect clouds with a range of birthdays covering no more than a season. Until we get some winter solstices to work out the genetics and geminics."
"Oh. . . . I'd have to check."
"Right, that. Which is very weird but I accept that the experts have told me not to try it at this time."