BY THE END OF THE SESSION each trainee had taken a turn at decanting a newborn, and Cariad finished the training a little less worried than she’d been when it started. Though the Gens still had a long way to go to restart natural human reproduction on a scale that would increase the population, it seemed they could at least lose some of their fear of it. Dr. Montfort would take over the students’ preparation for the real thing with natural childbirth vids and whatever else he had in mind.
When the last of the trainees had left, Cariad took a final look at the Gestation Room with its empty gestation bags, some still dripping. For nearly two centuries, the reproductive facilities had served the Nova Fortuna Project well, steadily maintaining a heterogeneous gene pool of two thousand individ
