Chapter 105

His purple eyes got wider and he pushed me to lay on my back. The blanket covering us was moved so he could examine me. All attention focused on Master Christof, who was focusing on my rotund belly.

"Why is this bigger? What have the others done to you?" he asked. "Is this illness the reason they did not bring you to us at the cabin?"

Probably, I thought. The men that kept me probably didn't want my real owners to see my stomach. The collective in my head roared at what they thought must be a sign of sickness.

I lay still and watched Master Christof's eyes. This was not how I planned to tell them. I felt they would be angry when they found out, so perhaps chained to a wall was better.

"One of you put a baby inside of me," I told him simply, although speaking the words seemed unnecessary. "There is no word I know to call it in your language. In my world the word is pregnant."

Nu-reeh entered then and the men all sat up.

"There is a word in our