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Citizens of Luceti.

[It is, perhaps, the first time Robert Lutece has ever used the journal as an actual means of reaching the community at large rather than simply a voxophone others happened to hear and respond to.

For all intents and purposes, he sounds as if he's discussing the weather or another phase in the Lutece Field he and Rosalind have been attempting to re-discover here and the machine they intend to re-build.

It's a very calm, very scientific tone.]

I would like to know if anyone here has information regarding conception, gestation, and delivery of children as it pertains to Luceti.

Physics is my specialty, but I am well-versed in anatomy and biology. [He does not need the "birds and bees" talk. That isn't the purpose of this.] However, there are anomalies in this world in regards to anatomy and biology -- the wings, for instance.

It is of interest to me whether these changes or the progression of the alterations of reality commonly referred to as "shifts" affect the aforementioned topics.

[...And yes, that is all he's going to say on the topic. Not why it matters or why he's decided to start researching this. It's simply stated as a matter of fact.]

Any information or Luceti-specific literature on the subject would be most helpful.

Thank you.

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Just as there's a difference between being unable to ever have children and having a chance to but at great risk.

...Sure? I don't get how that applies here, though.

So should someone who, here, has the opportunity and ability to have children but who, if returned to their world, lose both the opportunity and ability squander that because they might be sent away?

Just as with death -- as the number of children crowding orphanages where I am from shows -- we cannot know when our time will come.

[That brings her up short and she's silent for a few moments. Her own desire to have children has been a little hampered by getting the responsibility of raising a kid before she was ready thrust on her, but she still knows that it's important to a lot of people. She also knows what it means to have opportunities in Luceti that will disappear when she returns home.

Eventually, though, she does answer.]

If you ask me...yeah. Yeah, that someone should. I sympathize with her -- or him, I guess [her first thought was a woman, but she supposes it could be an infertile man] -- but I don't think it's fair on the children, or on the people who have to look after them when the parents disappear in a few years.

[She hesitates.]

But I guess I can see why you'd want to think about it now. I still say it's a terrible idea, though.

I have not once asked for the opinions of others. Despite that, I have been inundated with them.

The informed decision to be reached by the involved parties? Will not weigh opinion. It will rely on the facts I have been attempting to collect.

[It's true, but she still feels a little irked with the way he says it.]

Yeah, well, it's a fact that it's a bad idea, not an opinion. [Fenimore that's not really --] But if you want to go through with a bad idea, it's not like I can stop you.

No, you can't.

[It isn't surprising, really, that some people don't know what a "fact" is. Not all of them are scientifically minded and confuse sentiment with reason, emotion with logic.

Unfortunately, Robert leans too far to the latter in both of those categories to really consider the former. Especially when it's something he wants.]

...Fine, then.

[Yeah, sorry, Fenimore just slams the journal shut. Sure, she'd just also said she couldn't stop him, but she was ticked off with the way he said it.]

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