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[kidsmenu]

Bon soir. I am Claudia de Lioncourt.

[Small, blonde, extremely curly. A little more articulate and staid in her manner than your average twelve-year-old girl. She's wearing a flowery T-shirt and a backward, pink baseball cap.]

I am seeking information on how family relationships mature as a child grows up, in this world and time. In my old world, it would hinge on marriage, and childbirth, and separation from the ancestral home. But it seems that times have changed. Or perhaps they never were.

I'm given to understand that ImPorts don't tend to have children or anything, but I'm open to hearing stories gathered from the natives. Or your other cultures. Apparently, there is a saying, 'when in Rome.' And it would seem there are infinite versions of Romes to choose from.

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[kidsmenu]

Oh.

[Her eyes get big, then little again.]

I'm sorry, do your people mature quite a bit slower than humans? Thirty five isn't adult yet?

[extremeteenbible]

[ He gives her a wooden thumbs up. ]

You got it! Dwarves don't reach adulthood 'til they turn about fifty.

[kidsmenu]

That's very interesting, [she says, slowly.] And how many decades before you transform entirely into a tree?

[Serious question ok!]

[extremeteenbible]

[ He laughs jovially. ]

Ohh, about never, I hope! This [ He wiggles the fingers of his wooden hand. ] isn't a dwarf thing, it's from an old accident I had.

[kidsmenu]

That must have been a very unusual accident. Some sort of disease? A parasite?

Is it over now? Is it not spreading?

[extremeteenbible]

Somethin' like that. It won't spread any further, though. This is as wooden as I'm going to get, outside o' my jokes.

whispers sorry i am le slow here too

[kidsmenu]

A marvelous joke, [Claudia answers without particular interest.] How will you prepare your children for such accidents as growing tree limbs?

YOU ARE NEVER TOO SLOW MY LOVE

[extremeteenbible]

Well, I hope I'll never have ta prepare them for that particular accident... but I'd teach 'em how to use a weapon, or cast magic, or defend themselves in some way.

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[kidsmenu]

That sounds like very good parenting. They are fortunate to have such a father now. I hope they've an affinity for it like you.