Her brows furrowed slightly. Should he acquire parents? "Doesn't work that way," she said. "Adoption, if under legal age of self guardianship, but is not the same as having parents from birth. Can be adopted if under eighteen," she assured him. "Guardianship here is collective. Group effort. No parents, but watchers."
River smiled proudly, though she wasn't precisely sure why.
"Libraries have information, will answer all questions," she promised him as she tugged him along with her toward the aforementioned building. "Books and reports, documents, pamphlets, microfilm, computers. Much more information stored on computers. Like a cortex but different in accessibility and search capacity."