Plans for Peace

RETH

They laid in bed for another hour, dozing and talking. At one point Elia frowned.

"What about when she isn't a baby anymore?" she asked. "Where will she sleep?"

"Well… here," Reth said, blinking. "Why?"

"Here? In our bed?"

He'd huffed. "Where else? Where do you think I slept?"

"You slept in your parents room? When you were a… a child? A teenager?"

"Well, I'll admit there were times I found my own space when I was older, but as a child, yes. Do humans not sleep that way?"

"NO!" Elia recoiled, pushing away from him. "Reth, I'm not having sex with you in a room where our child is sleeping!"

He pulled his head back, his initial reaction was to fight her, after all, Anima had slept in family groups for millennia. But she looked so horrified… and as he thought about it, when they were children she'd had her own room. All of the human's he'd met had.