Midwife Crisis

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So let me get this straight,” Carrie Molina said. This was only about five minutes after landing on the water world called Welkin. She stood on a landing pad where her small shuttle barely fit next to a submersible craft. The pad stood next to a small Earth Unity base perched upon a motile island. She heard waves splashing ashore and caught a whiff of salt spray. “You brought me here to inject me into a creature called a Leviathan so I can treat its unborn child? What am I, some sort of antivirus or something?”

Carrie saw Matt Christian’s grimace and knew she wasn’t making a good first impression, but she didn’t care. You opened the door with this crazy idea for a mission, she thought, and you take whatever comes through it.

“Not at all,” Matt said. He was a tall, slender man in his late twenties, just a little younger than Carrie. “It’s all fairly straightforward. The Leviathan’s not quite fifty meters long—”

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