Dr. Martinez Dr. Elena Martinez had delivered over three thousand babies during her twenty-year career in neonatal medicine, but nothing had prepared her for managing four simultaneous supernatural pregnancies in an underground bunker while military forces circled overhead. As she moved between her patients, checking vital signs and monitoring labor progression, her medical training warred with the impossible circumstances surrounding them. “Contractions are still three minutes apart for all four patients,” she reported to Dr. Kellner, who was helping coordinate care despite her specialization being in supernatural physiology rather than obstetrics. “But the synchronization is unlike anything I’ve seen. It’s as if they’re all following the same biological clock.” “The network connection

