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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
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He shrugs. "It's been historically considered more of a masculine thing?"
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"Fighting type stuff has a similar history where I'm from. I wonder why it matches."
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"I've heard it speculated that on some level or other it has to do with it being easier to have a full-sized next generation if the women have to share partners than if the men do, which I suppose might be even more strongly operative here."
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"More or less. You're only supposed to marry one person at a time, but if you do get a son on a noble hunter - and trying is encouraged - she and the child normally join your household no matter who's already there. It can get awkward."
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"So, in theory I prefer actual monogamy but, one, I don't want to make your life awkward to whatever extent it is awkward to turn down noble hunters, and two, I would be pretty much psychologically incapable of resenting you over it although I can't promise I'd get along with the noble hunter particularly well, so it might make more sense to call it a flinch reaction rather than a preference."
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"...I wouldn't enjoy making you live with someone you resented for sleeping with me. And even before I met you I was planning to turn down noble hunters in the immediate future. But that might be worth having a conversation about, if we go a few years with no children of our own despite opportunity and without getting anywhere on the immortality question."
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"Better not get carried away, we're expecting a tailor."
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So just snuggles. Snuggles are nice and easily interrupted if anybody knocks.
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Snuggles are very good. They make Annie happy and this is important.
Eventually: tailor! Annie can have her pick of dwarven fashions as described and demonstrated. Trousers and skirts are apparently equally acceptable options for a woman.
Eventually: tailor! Annie can have her pick of dwarven fashions as described and demonstrated. Trousers and skirts are apparently equally acceptable options for a woman.
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She prefers trousers, will leave features like "color" entirely to the tailor's expertise because she sure can't distinguish them, and generally doesn't care very much what she wears as long as it isn't hard to put on, take off, or get around in.
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The tailor departs with a promise to have at least one outfit ready for her by tomorrow morning. Stalas has his old clothes back and is therefore a much less urgent case.
Now they are not awaiting a tailor! Whatever shall they do with all this free time?
Now they are not awaiting a tailor! Whatever shall they do with all this free time?