Anne McCaffrey - Horse From A Different Sea

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ARE WE BABES IN THE WOODS? OR I SHOULD say, babes in space. I don't mean beating the

Russians to a manned moonbase or setting up a space hospital or making Mars adaptable to our survival

there to ease the population explosion here. Our problem is more basic than that: can man survive as

Homo sapiens or a reasonable facsimile thereof. In that department, are we wetting our spacesuits!

I know what I'm talking about. Only I can't talk. Not yet, since my evidence hasn't come to light, so to

speak. It's due soon and, as an ambulance chaser from way back, I've got to be there. I'd rather know

right off what the competition makes out as.

We—that is, mankind, Earthtype—are in for one helluva jolt and this is one therapeutic pill that has no

sugar coating—unless it's an LSD cube. I'm not the only one in the medical fraternity to realize that

there's something queer in the conversion chamber. Some of us tumbled to it six months ago. The

research is not the stuff of which AMA citations are made, but it will be handy when Itoldyouso time

comes.

For me it started when my perennial maternity case phoned up and asked for an appointment.

"Buzzyboy says I must be pregnant again," Liz Lattimore said with understandable grimness in her voice.

She has six under six—well, one set of twins.

Buzz is a guy on a single track, business and monkey business. As a kind of moral justice, he has

sympathetic reactions to each of Liz's pregnancies in the form of violent morning nausea. Oh yes, it hap

'166 pens. Liz may develop varicose veins, hemorrhoids, boils, hot flashes, heartburn, and high blood

pressure during her gestations. Buzz gets the morning sickness. "How long since you missed a period,

Liz?" I asked her.

"That's just it, Ted. This time he must be sympathetic to someone else because I came regular as

clockwork last week."

"On a possible sixth pregnancy, you'd better see me."

She did. She wasn't pregnant.

"We had a fight a while ago," she told me after she'd dressed. "Buzz flounced out of the house like an

injured Cub Scout. When he came home, he wore that merchandisebetterthanthou expression.

Sometimes, Ted, it's a pure relief to me when Buzz cats around so I don't whinge."

She paused, about to add something more but hesitated. Even if she had voiced her suspicion then, I

doubt it would've made much difference.

"Anything I can do, Liz?"

"Outside of helping to suppress a paternity suit if the case arises, I don't think so. We made up our

differences." She rolled her eyes with droll expressiveness.

"Seriously, Liz, I'm glad you're not freshening again. You're run ragged now. Send Buzz in for a checkup.

He may need it."

Buzz came in the next day at noon, which proved that he was now worried about himself.

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