Аннотация
Lois McMaster Bujold
ETHAN OF ATHOS
For those who listened in the beginning: Dee, Dave, Laurie, Barbara, R. J., Wes, and the patient ladies of the MAWA.
CHAPTER ONE
The birth was progressing normally. Ethan's long fingers carefully teased the tiny cannula from its clamp.
"Give me hormone solution C now," he ordered the medtech hovering beside him.
"Here, Dr. Urquhart."
Ethan pressed the hypospray against the circular end-membrane of the cannula, administering the measured dose. He checked his instrumentation: placenta tightening nicely, shrinking from the nutritive bed that had supported it for the last nine months. Now.
Quickly he broke the seals, unclamped the lid from the top of the canister, and passed his vibrascalpel through the matted felt of microscopic exchange tubing. He parted the spongy mass, and the medtech clamped it aside and closed the stopcock that fed it with the oxy-nutrient solution. Only a few clear yellow droplets...
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