Chapter 11 Sabina is Born.
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Some months later, in July 2875, Melissa gave birth to Sabina, Metatron’s and Keila’s only daughter. She was a healthy child despite her embryo being cryogenically frozen for over a year before she was reinserted into Melissa, her surrogate mother. When Metatron studying the lively gaze in her light green eyes, he could feel her soul, and he was happy that he had opted to have her born by a surrogate mother, instead of having her born from a synthetic womb that he was.
Metatron visited Melissa as she was recovering from childbirth.
Melissa:
- She is beautiful, isn’t she? The daughter of you and Keila, Sabina.
Metatron:
- She is our daughter, Melissa. I want her to feel that way when she is growing up.
Melissa:
- But she can’t be? We haven’t had intercourse.
Metatron:
- That is true. But I don’t want her to find out the truth. That her mother is dead, but before she died, she released man-eating monsters devastating Earth. Also because of Keila the megalomaniacal villain Melchior Dorevitch is terrorising Mars with his army of mind-controlled soldiers.
Melissa:
- So, what do you want us to do? To pretend to Sabina that we are husband and wife and that she is our daughter?
Metatron:
- No, I want us to get married, so we really are husband and wife. For all the essential reasons, you and I are her parents. That is if you would like to marry me?
Melissa:
- I would love to marry you, grandmaster Metatron.
Metatron:
- I am happy to hear that Melissa. I will make an announcement to make it official, and then we will invite all of Eden to the ceremony and the party!
- I got to go back to work. I’ll come by a bit later.
After having left the room, Metatron retreated to his private bedroom, locked the doors and cried. He had decided there and then to finally give up on Keila and move on with his life. He had to move on, he had a child to look after now, and he could not raise a child obsessing over that child’s dead biological mother.
A lie and a new beginning, that was the best solution for everyone, and in time Metatron was confident that he and Melissa could form a happy family. Melissa was, after all, a perfect woman: loyal, obedient, loving and hard-working; but compared to Keila she just lacked the beauty, the fire and the drive that made Keila extraordinary.
Metatron decided that he wouldn’t tell Sabina the truth about her mother. It was better for everyone involved if Sabina grew up to be a good Edenite woman. In this way Metatron was old-fashioned. While he hadn’t approved of Abraham’s tyrannical ways, he had agreed to the basic premise: that the people needed to be part of a society with well-defined roles and rules, where everyone was carrying out their allocated lot in life to improve society.
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