Brother, I'm getting married...
By Sibins's bald head! This was as shocking as the Mechanical Director growing long hair overnight.
Rorschach's first reaction was to go over the trio's ages: Rorschach was the youngest at seventeen, Richard was the oldest, an eighteen-year-old "old man," and the groom-to-be, Bart, was somewhere in between.
In his past life, forget eighteen—Rorschach and his peers were still innocent schoolboys well into their twenties, with no thoughts of marriage whatsoever.
Plenty of Mages never married; in fact, that was the norm. The lineage of many a Great Mage could be traced back to illegitimate children they'd had with lovers or personal maids. Female Mages had lovers too, of course, but they generally avoided bearing children. As for how they managed that, Rorschach had no idea.
'Maybe there's some kind of special Magic?'
