She would enjoy the three years of being pampered that would follow her brief training;
she would give birth easily and well; and the task of Laborer that would follow would use her strength, keep her healthy, and impose self-discipline.
Inger was smiling when she resumed her seat. Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in prestige.
Jonas noticed that Asher looked nervous. He kept turning his head and glancing back at Jonas
until the group leader had to give him a silent chastisement, a motion to sit still and face forward.
Three, Isaac, was given an Assignment as Instructor of Sixes, which obviously pleased him and was well deserved.
Now there were three Assignments gone, none of them ones that Jonas would have liked—
not that he could have been a Birthmother, anyway, he realized with amusement.
He tried to sort through the list in his mind, the possible Assignments that remained.
But there were so many he gave it up; and anyway, now it was Asher’s turn.
He paid strict attention as his friend went to the stage and stood self-consciously beside the Chief Elder.
“All of us in the community know and enjoy Asher,” the Chief Elder began.
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