PART 2

Ninety minutes later, after they had swum in the lagoon and repaired their appearances, they were still grinning like fools with joy at what they had done.

“Well, we need to contact everyone we’re inviting and explain what we’re doing, and see if they want to come along.” Mark said as he drew a shirt over his shoulders. “And we need to decide where we’re going to live for the next twenty-four years. Once we’ve got those done, we should start getting it ready for us right away. Everyone else is going to want to prepare their homes there too, and be done with it by the time the time-bubble goes up.”

Talia was drawing a dress on over her head, and at that moment she stopped and held absolutely still for a second, then hurriedly finished pulling it on and laid her hands on her belly. Her face lit up with vibrant joy as she blurted; “I’m pregnant!”

“I know, my love, we’ve been celebrating it for over an hour!” Mark laughed as he swept her up and hugged her.

“No, you great silly oaf, I mean I’m pregnant again! On the other side this time! We’re going to have twins!” she informed him, her hands still pressed to her tummy.

Mark stopped and stared at her in surprise for a moment, then couldn’t help but hold her away from him and stare at her tummy, like he could see the life growing there.

“Great gods! That’s amazing!” he finally exclaimed.

the contraceptive spell, and we’ll have two babies! It’s so very unusual in every way! As Yzell said, we should barely be fertile with each other at all, let alone be able to produce twins on our first attempt! And it’s rare for a pregnancy to begin so long after our lovemaking! It was over thirty-six minutes after you last fertilized me

you tell if they’re boys or girls?” he asked, his grin

Though Yzell might well be able

he laughed. “We’ll have them all

that, he Translocated them to their patio. They quickly reviewed their tentative list of invitees, added a few more to it, them Mark

We’ve called you all to

Talia at Hilia to talk about it that evening. He asked those who needed help with the Translocation to give the time they wished to come, so they could be transported when they were ready. They asked Yazadril, Nemia, Theramin, Yzell, and Quewanak to arrive at their earliest possible convenience,

many of their families and

night, the attendees included 261 humans, 225

together. It’ll be challenging learning to tell all the Longstrider men and boys apart from each other. We have newlyweds Nek and Reen and six more of our friends from Norka’s in Sming, and their families and friends, for a total of fifty-five Smingans. And we have sixteen human-elven mixed couples, and their families and friends. Among the other elves we have all of the original Hilian Volunteers and twenty-one of The Atoned and some of their families and friends, a bunch of your family from The Nine Valleys, and a few of Alilia and Bezedil’s family and friends from The People of Life. Silaran and Equemev have ten of their family

we invited, but that makes sense I guess. I suppose a dragon isn’t missing

all, they should provide all our children

was settled Mark stood at the edge of the patio overlooking the lawns, augmented his voice to be heard by all, and

that our time apart from the world

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