Ethan's POV
I'm on my way to check on Yuki when Lyra stops me.
"Ethan. Wait." She catches my arm. Her voice is soft. Careful. The way it gets when she's about to hand me something and make me think I found it myself. "There's something you should know. About her. The medic."
I don't have to ask which medic. There's only one now.
"What."
"Sora has a son."
I stop walking.
"People have seen it," Lyra says. "The way she is with him. A little boy from the rear station. She holds him. She won't let anyone else touch him. That's not how you treat some orphan you feel sorry for. That's how a mother is with her own child."
Her own child. The words land wrong in my chest. I don't know why yet.
"A son," I say.
"That's what everyone's saying." She lowers her voice. She makes it gentle, like
