Well when death itself is wholly eradicated we can very well call it even and maybe he'll want to see the city sometime. And there'll be more human visitors so people will stare less.

Yeah. I did not mention in the infosheet that people past mid-twenties may be stared at. I should edit it in.

I will tell everyone to stop being rude.

That works too.

It is harder to extend my authority to intangibles like that. But we'll get it sorted. Tell him I'm sorry, if you think that'd be useful to hear. They're approaching the house.

Noted. Hello the house.

The twins are playing with Lári this time. They look a little younger than Kib; they wave at him.

"Hi!" Kib says, waving back. "How's my fellow human over there doing?"

She is hitting all kinds of milestones for tiny babies! Her grip strength is wholly adequate! One of the twins rolls his eyes and his brother punches him. "She's happy," he says, "and loved. All you can really start out with in the world, right?"

"Definitely a good starting point," says Kib.

Kib is welcome to come hold the baby or hang around generally but neither twin is interrupting their parents on his behalf.

Kib does not really know how to hold a baby. Think this is an interruption-grade visit? he asks Maitimo.

...he's probably likelier to start off in a bad mood if we interrupt, honestly. Maitimo knows how to hold a baby. Maitimo is happy to hold the baby and sit and chat with his brothers.

Gosh. The baby. She's such a baby. What's the topic today?

Everyone is extremely charmed by Kib's distaste for babies. They're mostly talking about the restaurants, which are newly off the ground, and attracting lots of attention none of which has yet been disastrous. How long does Kib think they should wait before announcing they are portal aliens who plan on ending death?

Well, 'portal aliens' is gonna come out sooner than later, there's too many ways for people to notice they are alien and portalsome. 'Immortal portal aliens' is probably a good stepping stone, otherwise people are not gonna believe they could get anywhere on ending death.

Anyone likely to be tempted to test the immortality of the portal aliens?

Maybe some nutcase. Perhaps they should go with 'unaging portal aliens'.

That'll be easy to convince people of, because none of the portal aliens will look older than mid-twenties.

It's true! It's sort of weird but Kib is getting used to it.

Kib is himself going to be eighteen pretty much forever, right? Assuming immortality doesn't take Father ten thousand years?

One thousand. In one thousand years he will look nineteen, then twenty, etcetera. Ten thou would have him looking older than Elves wind up looking.

"Immortality," says one of the twins, "is not going to take my father even ten Years."

"That's good to hear."

"What age should Lári freeze herself at? Eighteen? Twenty-five?"