"I see. Well, Aluvai girls and boys and enbies are missing out."

"Girls and boys and...?"

"Enbies, short for nonbinaries. People who don't neatly fit either category."

He deconstructs the acronym mentally and smiles. "Oh, clever."

Giggle. "Yes."

"I don't know of any of those in Aluvanna but maybe I would if they had such a clever word available."

"Are you likely to have heard of them if there were any? How many people live there?"

"A, let me see, third of a billion? How plentiful are enbies on Earth, then?"

"Dunno, probably on the order of zero point one percent? Less, I think."

"Well, maybe it's no surprise I don't remember meeting any, then."

"Yes, my point."

"Yeah."

"If you say so."

"I do!" She notices his tail behind him, then. "I kinda want to pet your tail, too."

He giggles. "You may if you like."

Giggle.

"I can get used to this."

"I'm not used to tails being such an oddity," laughs Ashras.

"No one has one, and it's fluffy and adorable. And I mean." She scritches his hair. "This is nice, too."

He laughs again, and hugs her. Hugging seems appropriate.

"Well, when you put it like that."

"Right? It's a thing that's very easy to get used to."