"I have no idea who it would have been but it would have been someone."

Lean. Snuggle. "I'm glad that in our world it was me."

She kisses him. Imeles is theatrically repulsed.

Once they've had a bit of a honeymoon he concludes that he's fine with Peka hooking up with herself.

"Of course it will have to be all secretive so people can go on thinking she's grey, dunno how to do that part."

"Ask a wizard?"

"S'pose. Wizard you I guess."

"Wizard me seems like the safest wizard to ask, yeah."

"Him and Rebecca are cute."

"They are. - you hadn't mentioned expecting to be miserable over not having more children, are you going to be -"

"- uh not miserable miserable? The average Amentans want if it's absolutely trivial to skip any springs they want to skip is five, and that's like. With mixed feelings and if the kids give them grandkids they get to see a lot. But Katin being little helps - people like to space them out with a year in between, usually, so they're still pretty little when you go a spring without one and then after that when they're not even slightly babies any more you have another, that works for a lot of people even if they can only have two total as long as there's grandkids and nieces and nephews and stuff... I dunno I was gonna worry about it once she was bigger it's been taking so long."

"...okay."

"I mean Valinor has years that are too long for me to season right anyhow, and also I am not going to age normally? So it seems dumb to worry that much about whether I will have Baby Imperative breathing down my neck because duh it would be really dumb to have enough kids to avoid that."

"Valar might be able to do something about the seasoning if you wanted. If we get home at all - years here are Endorë-length -"

"Endorë was doing it for some people and not other people, I dunno which I am yet."

"I'm surprised it can't be induced or managed hormonally, really."

"People're working on it. I guess it's possible somebody figured it out and didn't tell us and is just using it to colonize the equator."

"Our Amentan alts would probably have heard if someone invented it there."

"Yeah, but they're earlier. Their Katin is grown up but she was growing full speed."

"Wonder why no one in ours got to FTL."

"They don't have a your dad!"

"They do not! He can flatter himself very important to Amentan history."

"I wonder why it's a different kind."

"And why there are Elves but magic on a flat planet and why there are also humans of all of us -"

"It's a mystery!"