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They were usually so consumed with their own work they rarely, if ever, looked up.
I wondered idly if the scientists had been abducted and forced to work here too, and where they stayed if they had. Did they have quarters like the supervisor’s upstairs?
I sighed and yawned, exhausted after the night’s vigorous activities. I glanced over at the handheld device Junic had deposited on the side table.
There was a blinking bar across the middle.
The screen was a dull green, the lettering darker. The device was perched on a stack of other devices and lay on its side.
I turned my head to match its perspective, and as I did, the translator chip buried in my arm translated the words.
The letters transformed into English letters from their original alien language and yet, the words made no sense to me.
It was a single word, eight letters long, and they flashed intermittently.
The blood drained from my face.
POSITIVE, it blinked.
POSITIVE.
Not negative.
POSITIVE.
That meant…
No.
It couldn’t mean…
But it did.
POSITIVE.
I was pregnant.
“Excuse me,” a deep voice said.
A hand drifted toward mine and shook it.
“I’m Dr. Liok. I have some very exciting news…”
My eyes zigzagged up to the doctor’s face. He peered at me through his wide spectacles. He had hard outer shell-like skin and above his top lip was a ridge of dimples which might have passed as a moustache in his species.
His mouth moved but once again, the words made no sense.
“You’re pregnant.”
It didn’t matter whether I read it or he said it to me directly. It still didn’t make sense.
I couldn’t be pregnant. We’d been so careful. Trayem always pulled out at the last second…
Except, last night, we’d been so engrossed in our activities that he hadn’t pulled out…
Had he?
Yes, I thought. He had.
