The moment Ancou woke up after the surgery, he started asking about the egg and he didn’t stop until the nurse let him hold the container they had placed it in. He hugged it close to his broken body and refused to let it go, as though trying to keep the last remaining part of Jania warm through the glass. Day 20 Coming Soon! Day 18: Misfit Day 1: Ring…The moment Ancou woke up after the surgery, he started asking about the egg and he didn’t stop until the nurse let him hold the container they had placed it in. He hugged it close to his broken body and refused to let it go, as though trying to keep the last remaining part of Jania warm through the glass. Day 20 Coming Soon! Day 18: Misfit Day 1: RingWW…

Jania needed him to want her like she had never needed anything in her long, long life. How unexpected, how sweet, like lifting an old stone and finding a colony of diamond-seed flowers blooming in the dark. Just like diamond flowers, she knew this love, this man, would only last the equivalent of a day to her, a single season; by the time she made her next shed, he would be gone, his lifespan spent in one of her breaths. It was a waste of her time. He was the state scientist and he had one role: to build an incubation chamber for her soon-to-be-born offspring. And if he couldn’t do it in...…Jania needed him to want her like she had never needed anything in her long, long life. How unexpected, how sweet, like lifting an old stone and finding a colony of diamond-seed flowers blooming in the dark. Just like diamond flowers, she knew this love, this man, would only last the equivalent of a day to her, a single season; by the time she made her next shed, he would be gone, his lifespan spent in one of her breaths. It was a waste of her time. He was the state scientist and he had one role: to build an incubation chamber for her soon-to-be-born offspring. And if he couldn’t do it in...WW…

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