"Yes, she should live somewhere where she can go to a priest for things."

"Maybe we can import a priest, human cities are -" he makes a face.

"You can probably find one who'd be imported. Or who'd commute."

"That works. Uh, Rebecca, for Elves, sex is marriage - when we first lie together our souls bond immutably for all eternity and we develop new senses and so on. We can have a, uh, church ceremony? And then..."

"Uh, wow. Senses?"

"That doesn't even work for me, why would it work for a human?"

"Oh, it's - do you have free will -"

"Yeah but it didn't work before that either."

"Yeah but that means it's safe to explain. It's expectation-controlled. It works the way it does for Elves because that's how we were taught it would work, and it doesn't work at all for orcs because that's what they were taught, and it works one-sidedly for an Elf with a human if they want that, that's what Gem and Joy have. If I mean to marry her I'll marry her. - she won't be married to me, strictly speaking, but we'll do the human ceremony for that."

"What, no fair, now I have to go on the waiting list to get rid of my free will if I wanna get married."

"So I don't get the - senses - thing?"

"No, sorry, that's an Elf thing."

"Okay. It sounded kinda cool, oh well."

"There are some nice things about the way Elves do marriage. But on the whole - I mean, maybe Catherine's father wouldn't have if humans worked like Elves, but if he did, you'd be stuck with him."

"I wouldn't be."

"We would."

"What if he dies."

Snort. "Elves don't consider marriage to be dissolved on death. Relax, they're both all right -"

He hugs his wife.

Hugs!

"So there are four more of her? Aurum, Wish, Eclipse, Warp?"

"You'd know better than me, I wasn't reading the updates and then Epic showed up and said 'there's a dead Rebecca and Catherine and I'm sad so I'm going to resurrect them do you want to marry her' -"

Giggle. "And how many of us -"

"Ah, Millennium alt is seven thousand years old and very gloomy, I don't know if he'd be ready. Might want to think about it for a decade. Shadow alt's evil. Cube alt is a blue centaur. Shine alt will have one, Elentári alt will have one, there are more than two Space forks but some of them are probably too busy to have a child right now."

"She's a very easy baby."