Anu Lee's Last Thought

Anu Lee's belly felt hard as a rock and the pain drove even her fear of death away. Obi-3 brightened the lights which seemed to amplify the pain. She was 29 years old and she'd watched all her friends settle into marriage and have child after child. Yet this was her first. And there had been so much chaos around the fact of her pregnancy that although she went to regular checkups she hadn't really thought much about the birth or what she'd do afterward. So Anu Lee wasn't ready.