Child

To child when used as a verb means to conceive and give birth. A childer is one who does this, and the whole process happens in a childeria or group of two childers and their doulas. Each person can have up to ten doulas; seven is a frequent number.

The process of childing can properly be said to be at the heart of the Florian world. While there is no obligation to child, most hanas do it, and use childing as the Levelup between hana and terton. Young hans go trucking and have many adventures, during whih they are encouraged to tour the world, have tempestuous love affairs with their contemporaries and immediately seniors. However, inevitably the continuous party whirl eventually gets them down. A few bad love affairs also bring wisdom in their wake. And of course the trucking hanas are scoping each other out constantly. When they feel the urge to leave it all and come home, and they find someone who feels the same way, they open a doula register for senior tertons who want to come back to the Green Zone to sign up for doulahood. Mostly the people who watch their feed like hawks see the notice and pounce on it, so in practice your family and friends are most likely to apply for doula. They all gather at an astrocity and pick their childing basha from all the available candidates, and then they have a final, earthtouching party to celebrate their coming home. Thenceforth all processes are hawkishly watched at all stages.