"Hasn't been tried, might work. You also don't get to pick if you're a demon or one of two other things."

"Don't I. What're the other things, who does get to pick -"

"Angels and fairies, and as far as we know it's not a person sorting dead people."

"If it's a process there's probably a way to cheat it."

"My theory is that it's about personality suitability to the magic powers and I do think you'd be a demon if I'm right."

"If you destroy all the backups and then kill yourself to test that I will be so terribly annoyed."

"Well, not while the girls are still so little."

"We don't even need demons for anything! We're going to have a way to get to Endorë fast in a hundred Years anyway and what else even is there -"

"It's just the principle of the thing. And you said they might have language-learning magic powers."

"We do, but you still learn them the normal way really fast, it took me years to pick up a second language via actually learning it."

"I don't want magic language-learning powers because learning languages takes too long, I want them because magic. language-learning. powers."

"You make a compelling argument but I think you should like, sleep on it or something."

"I did say I'd wait until the girls were all grown up. Maitimë's our oldest."

"They know, mother, they're time-travellers."

"We did know that, yes."

"We had twins just because I was curious what happened if you tried to have two babies at once!"

"Twins happen. They happen to humans all the time. Somebody pulled off octuplets once."

"...oooooh. I don't think my husband wants eight more. Maitimë -"

"I'm sure I can eventually find a husband who wants eight at once but you do not get to complain about how long it is taking and you have to convince your mother that I don't need to be married to become Queen."

"I should mention that this is in fact a terrible idea, it's probably less of a terrible idea for Elves but the human octuplets set a record when they survived their infancy."

Elves look appropriately horrified. 

"Where I'm from three usually don't make it."

"Risky for the moms too. I mean, this is because humans are a terrible species design and Elves are an improvement in almost every way, but you're still on a similar body plan and probably shouldn't try octuplets."

"Honestly I was contemplating waiting on children until we'd improved on childbirth."

"Can't blame you, wretched system."