Passages by Olan Thorensen

Author:Olan Thorensen
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

Maghen and Alys moved to their cottage the next day. The mother appreciated his offer to help with baby, but what exactly could he do that Maghen couldn’t because she would need to breastfeed every few hours? Besides, women cared for babies, and what would the other men and women think if they saw Mark doing things that were her duty?

He didn’t have an answer, though he admitted to himself the custom suited him and was rational—at least, given the culture. The first months consisted of long days with less sleep than usual. Wife and child or not, Toodman’s good regard and support or not, Mark still had a solid five days’ work to do every sixday.

After Alys’s birth, Mark heard a few comments about Maghen’s quick delivery and recovery. She had previously told him about several instances of bruises healing unusually fast, but he hadn’t connected her words to his own healing. Now, after the birth, his suspicions were aroused. He watched carefully for any events that caused bruises or cuts. Maghen didn’t have any significant injuries during the next month. Yet her minor cuts and bruises healed quickly enough for Mark to suspect that somehow his faster healing had transferred to her. The obvious mechanism was sex, but he didn’t know how the process worked.

He also checked the speed of his own healing by making a test cut, as he’d done in Tregallon. The cuts still healed faster than on Earth and, though he wasn’t certain, possibly faster than the last time he had done the test. What did it mean? Was he recovering from the stirkin attack, so that his healing ability was slowly returning to the level it had been at first? Was it certain he’d passed on the trait to Maghen? If yes, would her healing ability improve over time? And what about Alys? As she became more mobile, accidents were bound to occur, and Mark would keep a close eye on the child. At some point, he might have to talk to Maghen and come up with a plausible story . . . but not now.

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