Chapter 514
The little girl in my belly rolled then and stretched. Hannah and Ra both reached out a hand to feel her movements. She seemed to press into her sister’s touch before she settled again.
“The way you breed,“ Ra stated, “is unheard of. They have tried it with several other Earth females.”
Hannah growled and shook her head. Even Ra looked sad after her statement.
“Boys are easy,” Ra said softly, “but girls…”
Hannah looked troubled and touched my face.
“The girls break the families apart. The men cannot deal with the differing opinions. The Earth females cannot deal with the influx of stimulus. They are driven to madness and the pregnancies are lost with the deaths of the human slaves. The men, they barely survive.”
A cool wind whipped through the deserted section of cave we sat in and I shivered.
Christof was in my head scolding me for not bringing something warmer to wrap in. He was leaving the sorting room and bringing me something right now. I had known where Hannah and Ra would hide with me to talk. They always took me on long deserted walks. Getting sick would get all of us in trouble, so he was coming to take care of me.
Hannah was snapping her fingers in my face when I realized where I was. It was hard not to be distracted by the voices in my head. My daughter found my inability to concentrate quite annoying.
“You just stare off in space all the sudden,” she huffed.
“It’s Like having a conversation with a schizophrenic!”
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I ignored her outburst and advised the girls Christof was already on his way, so they would not be surprised by him.
“It is what you had with Christof,” Hannah said getting back to the conversation, “that saved all of us. He allowed his Brothers’ thinking to bend without breaking.”
“We will save him one day, Mama,” Ra promised me. “We will save all of them.”
I believed them, I had to. They were the physical manifestation of the hope I had clung to since I’d been brought here. Hannah and her Sister were tireless fighters for freedom. I knew what they did when they Left and I saw the exhaustion it caused them. Neither seemed to care, they only wanted what was right.
Apparently everyone was going to continue jumping on the freedom bandwagon.
“What is a whale?” Evan asked one evening at dinner.
“No, no Brother,” Kein amended, “a bloated whale?”
I coughed and had to take a drink to avoid choking. I remembered the carcasses of whales I had seen washed up on television. Their huge rotund bellies reminded me of my own.
Now many moons into this pregnancy my stomach had grown to enormous proportions. I realized how early I must have been with Hannah. The initial nausea and vomiting had probably stunted my growth, and hers, also. I was markedly larger this time.
I wasn’t entirely sure where the men picked up the phrase, though. “You thought of it today as you swam,” Damien informed me. This is property © of NôvelDrama.Org.
“We kept hearing the Earth words, but we did not wish to interrupt your exercise.”