Chapter 13
Duchy of Aragoni
Marco
THE THREE OF US settled down to eat, and Trevor said, “This would be a good time for a little Q and A. Both of you must be overflowing with questions, so have at it.”
“Yeah,” I said. “Trevor, how old are you?”
“I was born in 1775 during the reign of George III.”
“You said that you’re married. How many times have you been married, and how many children do you have?”
“This is only my second marriage, but I’ve fathered half a dozen children over the years.”
“So few, in over two hundred years?”
“In matters of evolution, nature gives and nature takes away.”
“What the heck does that mean?”
“We have long lives, but we are not always fertile. Think about it—if we bred as often as normal humans do, it wouldn’t be very long before the planet became occupi
