let us run with endurance the race that is set before us

[seer_of_god]

Leoben was obviously still coming to terms with Three's disappearence but he tried to take comfort in the idea that she would have returned home. That it would only be a matter of time until she had a child. She was meant to be a mother more than she was anything else

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[frakkup]

Kara appeared in the door, clutching at her chest. "My boobs hurt. Why do they hurt already?" She threw her arms into the air. "There's not gonna be milk in them for months!"

[seer_of_god]

Leoben blinked, eyeing the branch in his hand but imagining there was really no way he could pretend to not have heard her announcement. It was possible all their neighbors had too.

He managed a small smile as he set his project down. "Having no mammary glands of my own, I have no idea why your breasts would be hurting you."

[frakkup]

"Well, according to this..." Kara pulled an already abused paperback from the back of her pants, pausing only to give it a disdainful look, "'A woman's breats can grow and change in preparation for the production of milk as early as two weeks after conception.'" She waved the book violently. "Two weeks! That's stupid!"

[seer_of_god]

Maybe he should have told everyone about the baby at the speeches for the Council afterall. Leoben glanced at the book only briefly, worried that she would want him to read it if he seemed at all interested in its contents.

"That is sort of stupid." ...Wait. Growing as in getting bigger? That wouldn't be so bad. "And I know it might take some getting used to but it'll work out. Don't you think?"