Heron Lake Plateau Spherical

I don't think I can catch pregnancy, countered her sister-in-law, but that wasn't a word she'd ever heard used before. The more she rambled on, the less and less Camilla understood. She realized by the end of it that something was very, very wrong. She knew what a mom was, and a dad - but that wasn't - she couldn't be --

Oh. Ohhh.

A flash of light in her mind's eye, as the bulb lit like a flare. All those days lived at the mercy of those men! Growing fat and sick and so hungry, and then the drugs — the darkness of Camilla's life before the Redhawks finally made sense to her. She hadn't been sick; the other women hadn't tended to her out of care, but out of pity; the lost time at the end had been because she'd --- she'd become a mother?

No, mothers had children. I... She was gawking at Towhee, but not really looking at her.
I'm gonna be a mum?

And with that her legs gave out; she rested her plump belly on the dirt and stared awkwardly down at the soil by her feet, completely stunned.