Pressing her lips together and nodding, Lydia shrugged. "According to Arva, yeah, that's exactly how it works," she explained.
Somehow, she felt like there might be some disappointment in the making if she answered that question with a short-run honest answer. "To make this baby," she prefaced, "yes. ...and if the experience of shrinking a full term pregnancy down to three months isn't completely traumatizing, then...maybe another time somewhere down the line," she decided as she said it. "Is that okay with you?" she asked a little cautiously.