He rubbed along Avon's forearm, appreciating the comfort that he was giving him.

"Do you ever feel as if you were slightly compromised in marrying me. I could not provide you with traditional biological offspring, even if I were human." Some still preferred the natural means of child production, even where he'd been from. Same sex couples could produce genetic combinations of themselves through a licensed geneticist.

Avon never struck him as the diaper and bottle feeding type, but the sort to be secretly nurturing.