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Chapter 4
The other gods there declined. Then Falgaroth and Visinniria were the first to take their leave, and the rest quickly departed, most to prepare for their extended absence from the rest of the world.
Soon Mark and Talia were alone. Mark sat on the sand and leaned back on a sitting log, and Talia curled up in his lap.
“So, what are your thoughts on the raising of children, my love?” Talia asked as she kissed him under his chin.
as much like I was raised as we can. But on the other hand, I won’t lie to them, so they’re gonna know about our regular life here, even if they’re not living it at the time. Knowing that they’re really wealthy princes and princesses might make them less appreciative of a basic life than
raise them much as I was raised, including as much training in wizardry and magecraft as they’ll accept. They’ll have an idyllic twenty-four years with us in the time-bubble, I hope, but after that, they’ll be out in the world with us during the war with the demons. I hope very much to keep them out of combat completely, but in case we can’t and they have to
serious truth.”
she said as she turned to face him, then caressed his
adults by the time they’re sixteen. So that gives us at least eight tries to have a boy and a girl. If we get a boy and a girl on the first two tries, we can
only if we can devote ourselves to parenting full-time. If I had to work at a full time occupation, I would not want to have more than two young children at once. Don’t misunderstand; I plan to have dozens of children with you over the centuries, but the first few years of a child’s life are so critical, and there are only so many hours in a day. I once wondered how humans who have large families avoid attention-starvation and neglect in their youngest, so I researched it. And the answer is; when a couple have more than five children, the oldest ones do much of the child-rearing work with the younger ones. Which I think is unfair
their parental home before they decide to have another one. At least one parent is available to
I’m fine with having four young children at once. If they’re all boys or all girls, we’ll just have to try again after the nexus. Or perhaps
raising of children will involve the teaching of magic, and the Alliance wants us to get better at that, everyone should be fine with giving us another two months off in the real world over the next year. Particularly if our kids turn out