Sparkle gave a little nod. Okay. He... thought he was following along. He hoped he was following along.

"Children should never be an expectation," he noted. "Even here, in this backwards stupid time and place, children should be something that two people talk about and agree on because they both want to have kids, not because somebody is someone else's property or anything shitty like that."

That part seemed like an important first thing to lay out. And firmly so. Sparkle had strong feelings about kids, especially kids that weren't necessarily wanted.