“I hope they’re not going to decide to release him.” “Maybe it would be for the best,” Mother suggested.
“I know you don’t mind getting up with him at night. But the lack of sleep is awfully hard for me.”
“If they release Gabriel, can we get another newchild as a visitor?” asked Lily.
She was kneeling beside the crib, making funny faces at the little one, who was smiling back at her.
Jonas’s mother rolled her eyes in dismay. “No,” Father said, smiling. He ruffled Lily’s hair.
“It’s very rare, anyway, that a newchild’s status is as uncertain as Gabriel’s. It probably won’t happen again, for a long time.
“Anyway,” he sighed, “they won’t make the decision for a while. Right now we’re all preparing for a release we’ll probably have to make very soon.
There’s a Birth-mother who’s expecting twin males next month.” “Oh, dear,” Mother said, shaking her head.
“If they’re identical, I hope you’re not the one assigned —” “I am. I’m next on the list.
I’ll have to select the one to be nurtured, and the one to be released. It’s usually not hard, though.
Usually it’s just a matter of birthweight. We release the smaller of the two.”
Jonas, listening, thought suddenly about the bridge and how, standing there, he had wondered what lay Elsewhere.
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