Below the inexplicably completed task appeared a new entry in my sight. One that proved that, while it might not exactly talk back - it is definitely listening.
| TASK: Seek Medical Verification |
My hand instinctively went to my abdomen again. I knew that the meaning could be only one thing.
The System wanted me to confirm what I'd been both assuming - and doubting - since I arrived in this body. I needed to verify whether this pregnancy was real.
If its seeming manipulations I expect are real, tricks… or simply something I don't understand.
I closed my eyes, trying to sense anything different about my body. Any sign of life supposedly growing inside me.
The way of shifting I was taught avoids affecting that area - the 'uterus' it is called here - as much as possible in the first place. The times I've done it in this body, this fact was no different from my world… as far as I can tell.
So there was nothing tangible or certain I could say.
