Spartan... is that a veiled way of saying that I'm a cruel task-mistress with little in the way of a sense of humor when I train people? [She snorted and smirked at him.] It would be true if that's what you meant. I don't know how well I teach many, outside of the basics though, but... thanks.

I'd guess, though, that my kind die in such droves as much as anything because there are no communities. We're that rare. I only ever knew one other, and she was almost human.

[She swallowed a little, shaking her head.] I'm never entirely sure, however, how to handle the idea of a polyamorous marriage or something similar. They always seem doomed to pain. But, who knows?