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I looked at his hand but didn’t take it.
“What was the idea?”
He lowered his hand and his smile fell with it.
“It’s outrageous. As a scientist, sometimes we get excited by our ideas and… It’s dumb. I’ll find some other way.”
“Other way to do what?”
The Supervisor looked me over and searched my face.
He must have found something he liked or respected there because he leaned forward and spoke with his hands.
“To save his species,” he said meaningfully. “There’s so much more we need to study and learn about him. He could hold great secrets that might open the door to new science and discoveries, much like the blinkers.”
“How can you save his species? He’s the last of his kind.”
The Supervisor nodded.
“He is. But not if he were to have offspring.”
I let his words wash over me.
Offspring? But that meant mating. That meant sex. That meant children.
And he was asking me.
My lips felt numb.
“Kren is the very last of his species and I want to bring his species back,” the Supervisor said. “Maybe if he had something else to live for, it might encourage him to leave this place. If he mated with a female, his species could be saved.”
I sensed what he was saying but I couldn’t bring myself to formulate it in my mind.
“What I’m suggesting is, you allow him to impregnate you,” the Supervisor said. “You bear his offspring and we’ll see if we can create a large enough population with other females to kickstart his species once more.”
He just sat there.
I blinked, staring back at him.
“What?”
“I told you it was crazy.”
“You want me to be a mother?”
“No, not a mother. A surrogate.”
Was this guy crazy? I should have left when he said it was a crazy idea.
“I’m sorry,” he said, raising his hands. “I thought it was worth a shot, that’s all. I didn’t mean any disrespect. I just thought… Never mind. I’m sorry for wasting your time. If you’ll follow the guards, they’ll return you to the Pool.”
The Pool.
That was where I would return.
That was where I would end up.
And who knew where I would go after that.
