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"Who said anything about settling down?" Birk asked in an amused tone. "That's all nice and good, of course, but why should you jump right at proposals and marriage and family life, when you could just as easily have just fun? Nothing too serious - people hanging out." He did not yet know that this "having fun" part could go in all kinds of different ways, not all of them being great and wonderful. 

"That's... eons apart," he laughed. Physics and medical stuff was not that far off from each other, but still... "But I think that my great-great aunt or something dealt with both. She was a seer or oracle or something. Could read future in animal guts and tell, what ailments would haunt you, from the position of stars at planets at the time of one's birth."

After this they talked a little more and then Birk setteld for the night to wait for the storm to end.