I think a large dowry is supposed to smooth out any ah, personal incompatibility.
[ There's something wry in his tone. He doesn't really feel this way himself.
The expectations for the wives of the gaun'im in Basawar are very different compared to even the common folk of the country - even in the decades after the fall of the Payshmura. They are meant to produce healthy heirs and not cause any issues for their spouses.
It's only getting slowly better for women in general, but he imagines that change is even slower for the gaunvur'im. It's not something he really thinks about, though, outside of his assignments that put him in their orbit.
In his mind, cobbled from bits of broken memory and sifting through what he was told by the priests and what he realizes might not have been true: he imagines his parents must have loved each other. ]
IVF? [ He looks confused, trying to parse the meaning from surrogate. There are things he can recall easily, and others that never came up in conversations (or television). ]
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[ There's something wry in his tone. He doesn't really feel this way himself.
The expectations for the wives of the gaun'im in Basawar are very different compared to even the common folk of the country - even in the decades after the fall of the Payshmura. They are meant to produce healthy heirs and not cause any issues for their spouses.
It's only getting slowly better for women in general, but he imagines that change is even slower for the gaunvur'im. It's not something he really thinks about, though, outside of his assignments that put him in their orbit.
In his mind, cobbled from bits of broken memory and sifting through what he was told by the priests and what he realizes might not have been true: he imagines his parents must have loved each other. ]
IVF? [ He looks confused, trying to parse the meaning from surrogate. There are things he can recall easily, and others that never came up in conversations (or television). ]