"Nah, far as I know they're great."

"Well, Aegnor was an enormous teenager over Andreth."

"Okay, true, but not remotely a rapey one."

"Well, Artanis's problem wasn't rape either."

"What'd she do, I actually don't have any serious issues with her beyond being super childish and making stupid death threats and declaring that my dad was the real enemy -"

"Mostly it was the death threats and declaring your dad the real enemy. I mean--I'm not definitely saying he wouldn't have burned the boats if she and hers weren't doing that, but--"

Probably not, yeah.

"Everyone was so mad at him and I couldn't say they were wrong except that when Artanis said it I wanted to punch her in her stupid fucking face because it was her fault too and she didn't have any right to complain that someone took measures to prevent her from murdering them."

"Yeah. Yours isn't - dead anymore?"

"...No."

"That's nice."

"Took too damn long. And everyone else died too, first."

"Yeah, we read the files - thirty thousand years - I'm amazed any of us are sane -"

"Yeah. Dunno how but I'm really glad of it."

"And let's not let it happen anywhere else, yeah?"

"...Kind of impractical. There are it turns out millions of Ardas."

"What the fuck."

"Matt was there when this was discovered. It ended badly."

"What happened -"

"Macalaure had to break out a high-octane happiness song to stop his psyche from shattering into a bunch of tiny pieces."

"Yeah, he does that - it really works pretty well -"

"Imliss was there. It kind of spooked her after the fact."

"I'm sorry."

"Nothing to be sorry for."

"...so why'd you two decide to have kids?"