Indeed you have, I fear. I'm preparing to become a wedding tyrant. I don't think you're gross. I won't let you come, if that feels like less of a reward for you.
Right now? Suppose I am suffering, because my shirt is a little wet with hot tea, and Kettlewing is crying. Do you think Saint Alina will answer my begging for a new shirt? Or a quieter baby.
( a pause, briefly, because he's stunned he never thought about it before — of course their children would be likely as strange as they are, if they're the byproduct of two oddities. how is it possible he never thought about all they'll inherit from him, the same as he inherited from his mother? well. )
It doesn't bother me. The truth is they could be entirely normal, and still be the most powerful babies in space and time, simply because they'll have you and me in the palms of their hands. That said, following laws of probability, I think any child we have will be strange and perfect, like you or Alia. I'd be lucky if that were the case. I only ever resented my own oddities because I felt like I had no choice in them, like the Bene Gesserit already planned out my life before I was born. But, I'd give our children a choice in their own power. And if their answer was no, they'd still be my children. Actually, my father said that to me once. He was very wise.
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I don't think you're gross. I won't let you come, if that feels like less of a reward for you.
Right now? Suppose I am suffering, because my shirt is a little wet with hot tea, and Kettlewing is crying.
Do you think Saint Alina will answer my begging for a new shirt? Or a quieter baby.
( a pause, briefly, because he's stunned he never thought about it before — of course their children would be likely as strange as they are, if they're the byproduct of two oddities. how is it possible he never thought about all they'll inherit from him, the same as he inherited from his mother? well. )
It doesn't bother me. The truth is they could be entirely normal, and still be the most powerful babies in space and time, simply because they'll have you and me in the palms of their hands.
That said, following laws of probability, I think any child we have will be strange and perfect, like you or Alia. I'd be lucky if that were the case. I only ever resented my own oddities because I felt like I had no choice in them, like the Bene Gesserit already planned out my life before I was born. But, I'd give our children a choice in their own power. And if their answer was no, they'd still be my children.
Actually, my father said that to me once. He was very wise.
( pretty. stop that. )
You're pretty.