Chapter 14: The Price of Freedom
As they walked, Kia pushed aside the fears struggling to surface. In earlier hushed conversations with Ambuya that had taken place when the actual birth was still in the future, she’d confided her anxieties. Neither of them had any idea what effect the nanobots would have on the embryo. Yes, Rial was healthy, but he’d inherited his nanobots solely from his mother. In theory, this babe should have twice the chances of success. But, more often than not, theory presented one conclusion and the reality was different.
The one thing that mattered was putting one foot in front of the other. The contractions were getting closer together but, thank the Goddess, no worse. “What?” she said as they rounded a bend and the tunnel came to a dead end. She looked at Kulta
