normal, allowing her to take months of pregnancy down to a few days. Of course, that also required her to drink from Gaia’s breasts in order to supply the nutrients her body needed to sustain such a rapid growth. She was still in turmoil over the pregnancy. She didn’t want to be a mother. Especially not to that monster Aecus’s child. Oh, she understood why she needed to carry the child to term, but that didn’t mean she had to like it. As soon as the child was born, she was