"No," she answered softly. "I wanted to wait. To see if he, or she, survived." There was a pause while her mind turned that over a few times. "Probably why I haven't spent a whole lot of time talking to it, or even planning for it, now that I think about it. The pregnancy was just...one more complication in an already messed up world."

She raised her eyes to David's. "You probably think I'm the worst mother-to-be in the world now, huh?"