It's perfect, I love it.

Lovely, then, we'll have a girl first.

You can pick? Convenient.

I, personally, get to pick, it's a biology thing, so I think it should work even with humans.

Oh, yeah, women have two of the same thing and men have one of the thing and one of the other thing so it's the father's blood that determines it. I could probably decide anyway, if I knew enough practical bloodworking, but that would mean picking out its entire set of underblood manually instead of, you know, letting nature decide. And I don't know enough bloodworking.

"I don't find picking instead of letting nature particularly objectionable, but I wouldn't know how. Gender we can do by intuition. Though it's wise not to get too attached to the gender, at least not with Elven children- every once in a while someone doesn't like theirs and wills it into being something else."

"Oh, that happens to humans too, although as with many of your soul-related advantages we have to use magic instead. And I guess people who don't have anything better than a hedgewitch on hand might have to do without altogether. Do they get their parents to rename them in that case or pick their own or are elven names mostly just gender-neutral?"

"I think they typically pick their own. It's not too common."

"Not terribly. I'm vaguely curious whether it's more common for one of our species than the other but not enough to actually do anything try to find out." Kiss. She is not especially curious about kiss at this point but she is definitely motivated to do it.

Kissing's good.

Yeah, getting out of bed and doing non-kissing-related activities really doesn't appeal yet.

They have all the time in the world for that.

Eventually, unfortunately, her body is going to remind her that while it is quite happy with what's been going on it also requires things like food and water and is only human and therefore would like these things at least once every few days.

Bringing her food is nice. Watching her sleep is nice.

If she isn't cuddled up when she starts being asleep then this will change pretty much as soon as he ends up in snuggling range.

Oh, good.

She's like a sleepy little octopus that way.

Eventually eventually, though, she wakes up by bolting upright and breathing, "We completely forgot about teaching the little me magic."

"I did a demo for her while she was reading my mind, warned her not to do it until she's talked with her parents. I know it's not really safe for kids but I didn't  want everyone in her world to die. Except fuckoff dude, apparently. There's a guy named fuckoff dude who is already immortal."

"It hurts and making kids hurt isn't okay, it's not really less safe for kids, given the available tradeoffs I didn't say anything when the House of Beor sent kids to the magic lessons I was giving. And. Okay good. If she's telepathic and has the information it can be distributed from there to whoever ought to be doing it."

"Well, if she's too insatiably curious to not do it at least she won't permanently alter her personality."

"Ha. There is that. Of all the vectors for magic to be distributed to another world, a me is a pretty good choice. Even if she is six."

"Seems like she has a pretty capable family, too."

"The whole mutant thing is awfully intriguing. I'd be seriously tempted to ask for a gene sample for when I'm better at bloodworking if we hadn't been here so long she must be gone by now."

"That was very rude of us."

"On the one hand, yes, but on the other hand my body is too full of endorphins to have room for regret right now."