"My alts!" He shows her. And pets her.

Ooooh pets. She reads. "Isn't he reading her mind all the time?"

"You would think that would make these problems not be problems! I think he's overthinking it."

"Why did he get himself a me who would do the property thing if he did not want one who would do that."

"Well, there was one of you who would do that, and it wouldn't do at all for her to stay dead indefinitely, and I think he actually likes it fine but - not when it comes to kids -"

"Does he want one of the not her ones of us to ask her about it so he doesn't have to maybe scream?"

"That is a good idea. Should I suggest it? - he won't maybe scream, he won't ask her until he can cope, he is madly in love and it'd scare her and he'd never do that."

"Awwww. Yeah sure I would be happy to visit her and talk kids even if he is not going to maybe scream."

"Thank you, dear. Do you want kids someday, I am very confident in my ability to weather a variety of answers."

Giggle. "Someday! I think not as close together as Michael and his Rebecca have them. I wonder if they'd just be plain Elves or what."

Hair-ruffle. "Maybe their own kind of magical not-quite-Elf thing."

Giggle, shiver. "Also I hear Elves believe that you have to have sex every day while pregnant."

"You do! It's very important!"

Snuggle. "For maximally pretty Elfy babies or something!"

"It's for the health of the mother, I think, mostly."

"At some point I should like go meet my Elf parents."

"You haven't yet? Are they back alive?"

"I dunno, I sort of feel awkward about it. It's not like showing up on the orc planet to see Mama and Papa and all my brothers and sisters. - I brought Michael's Rebecca there once and she thinks they match her parents so my Elf parents are just some other people."

Nod. Squeeze. "Still, I think they'd like to meet you."

"Hi Mom and Dad, I murdered one of you and the circumstances of my existence were traumatic enough to provoke the other to suicide, how you doing."

Kiss. Sigh.

Kiss. Sigh. "Do you wanna go with me?"

"Would you like that?"

"I mean I could also wait till I have the nerve to show up without anybody to hide my face on but they are Elves and might care if they don't meet Kat till she's ten."

"Mmm. Okay, let's go."