Two Rivers Isle We all got expectations and sometimes they go wrong

those names sounded hard to copy for iseul, so instead of butchering them with her own attempt, she decides to simply hum as an answer. she thought they sounded delicate yet strong, seemingly a combination of both the parents. "i like." it was not the biggest compliment she could have come up with, but the meaning was still behind it.

"back home," she comes to say gently, "some want boy first, they get ah– mad if girl first." it was a common view at the time her parents were young and even when iseul was small. though, had she been back, she would have learned that the opposite is actually happening. most are actually preferring girls, perhaps for a myriad of reasons. "does ady or ully want uh... specific?" more or less she means to ask if they had a preference for gender. though, if the mother already had a few names picked already for both genders, perhaps she was just happy to have healthy kids in the end.