"Maybe we should wait exactly as long as we will have to wait to let her hold the baby right away."

" - I am probably not capable of waiting that little. Also Elves have a rule that you have to have sex every day the whole pregnancy so I had better make sure my affairs are very thoroughly in order first -"

Giggle. "That's a rule?" She was not exactly at her most keyed up last time she was pregnant but maybe the healing spell fixes "exhausted and nauseous".

"Such a rule." Kiss. "Which we will ignore if the healing spell doesn't fix that."

"Yes sir I love you sir."

"I love you and I am so pleased to have you."

Eeeeee.

"- why aren't you capable of waiting that little?"

"- one of the most ingrained things about being an Elf prince is that you do gradual predictable reliable things whenever you possibly can, you are the same person every single day, you are perhaps surprising and inventive on lots of things but not on the most important things -"

"Are people already very surprised you married me?"

"- that I married you the week we met, maybe - not that I chose you, on that I am behaving very reasonably. I had an alt who'd been happily married to a you so that helped, it could sort of count as the betrothal period."

Giggle. "It sounds like such a frustrating betrothal custom."

"It's the worst!" Kiss kiss. "And I don't think it even prevents unhappy marriages, really."

Kisses!!!! "How would it? If you can only marry people you can stand to be away from for a year -"

Giggle. Kiss. "Leaving you alone for a year was so, so not an option. I can't even imagine - my Rebecca -"

"Yours yours yours," she coos, snuggling up.

"I want you to be indestructible before we have a baby. I will arrange that with Mitros. - it takes some kinds of popular torment off the table, but none you've dwelled on especailly -"

"I don't especially want to be tormented! I like things that feel nice. It's interesting to think about other stuff some but mostly because it'd, I dunno, test me? Prove how yours I am? But if you don't need it proved that is good."

"I have no doubt that you would devotedly endure whatever I cared to put you through and not the faintest desire to demonstrate that." Kiss.

"I love you."

"I love you so."

He starts recruiting red refugees for administrative positions! In particular in outreach and situation management, it seems like maybe they'd be good additions to the teams for that, and maybe some of them want to get Allspeak and go canvass Voa's reds on their vote to leave.

He can get people for that. They are awkward about it at first, except the canvassing, that's well within their wheelhouse.

They can probably also capably teach people on random pre-industrial planets how to use an internet!

If it's like theirs and they can get over being allowed in these random preindustrial houses, yeah.