The refugees, 2nd draft

Thirteen

Shiani

This is an explanation of Shiani's pregnancy and related events, events in this chapter up to December.

Yeah, I am pregnant and Cordlen's Aroace, maybe we should back up from that huh?

After the marriage I suggested that we have a child together, Cordlen agreed and three months after I started showing the whispers started. They went from the idea that I had raped Cordlen to that I had slept with Fenris. All of them were wrong. In truth at night Cordlen merely went through the motions in order for us to have a child, ensure the succession, confirm our marriage, and to prove that they weren't a 'cold blooded android.'

"Just because I am Aroace does not mean that I cannot have a heir!" Cordlen said at council when the others asked. "My child is mine and I contributed to their conception for reasons other than any attraction beyond aesthetic!" Yes, Cordlen liked me aesthetically, my pink, white, and light blue matched well to their blue and gold.

Anyway, with that many people began to stop whispering about us and moved on to stuff like Falon and others. Our child was a boy, who claimed the name Chasity Wolfblood. Very few claim last names and those that do claim them for political or social reasons.

He was a boy thin and light, with yellow eyes and hair black as night, with white undertones. I remarked that I had rubbed off on him. He was a fine hand with a Donin, but it was in the Suwingu where he had expertise. He could fly almost as fast as Niki and when he came of age, he joined the Transportation faction.

Due to complaints on their name and the other names that they had been given the builders came together to discuss a new name, on Christmas they announced it, the Mikyana, where they had gotten the name no one was sure.

The water faction had begun to separate a side of Doggerel and sent it out to the Mikyana city, Mikera, the river is wide enough to be sailed by a small boat and they are constantly deepening it. Also, Doggerel seems to fill any trench dug for it and only fills a quarter of the sewers, as said before this reality is a little bit bent.