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said Shane.
    “To what?”
    “To, you know, menstruate...”
    “That is like being able to catch trains but not being allowed to get off at your stop.”
    “Mmmm… I’m not sure if it is like that...” Shane knew what she meant but couldn’t see what was so bad about being on a train.
    “The point is that I don’t have any rights as a woman.”
    “You have plenty of rights as a woman and… you never know it might come in handy one day.”
    “For what!”
    “Like when we get out of here—then we can have as many children as we like.” Said Shane.
    “Oh yeah and I have a little kid that looks just like the little kid next door and every other kid in the street! I run out to the park and yell “come in for dinner little Tommy!” and a dozen little clones all laugh and say: “but we wanna keep playing mummy!”
    “You know it won’t be like that. You’ve still got your own... what are they? Gametes. You still have your own DNA—your body’s just been fooled into thinking you’re someone else.” Explained Shane, positively.
    “Yeah well that’s exactly what I mean... Do I have my own DNA? How does anyone know what they’ve done to my body, to your body? We just go on day after day, playing these pointless games, believing that we’re all going to revert back to some ancient human way. You don’t even remember what a doughnut is.” She sniffed.
    “Hey come ‘ere. Don’t get so upset. You’re acting like it’s some kind of evil conspiracy...”
    “You said it...”
    “It is going to be OK. Everything else they said would happen has happened. We have a great life; can do... experience anything we want...”
    “I want a baby.” Said Mia.
    Shane covered his face. “Oh not this again.” He looked up and said to her quietly, “You have one. He adores you. Why won’t you let him in?”
    “You know that’s not what I am talking about!”
    Mia had heard about a hormone blocking agent available through a Sub dealer. It was originally manufactured for the Subs by Napeans to control their rabid population problem. Napean women had used it to mask their hormonal activity, to protect themselves from nightly digital analysis—and hide pregnancy.
    “Even if you did get pregnant and by some freak accident it escaped Service detection... what are you going to do? Keep it in the cupboard?”
    Mia was silent. Shane continued with his argument: “Everything Robbie sees, the Service can see, if they can be bothered looking.”
    “I’ll keep Robbie in the cupboard for the next 2 years. See what he sees in there.” Mia did have a ruthless quality.
    “You can’t abuse him.”
    “He might have a little accident.”
    “By the way where is Robbie?” said Shane trying to move off the topic of murdering their robotic son.
    “He’s cleaning his room...” Said Mia flatly. “like we told him to…about two hours ago. He’s so obedient it drives me insane!”
     

Chapter 10
    The Renewal Paradigm
     
    NAPEANS DECIDED EARLY on that without a mortality rate, there could be no birth rate. Life was “extended” indefinitely. People were not dying; resources were limited, so International Napean law criminalized reproduction; children were banned and euthanized if discovered.
    The Service kept an eye on female fertility during telepathic exchange and upload periods. Napean women could become pregnant, but were unable to produce a placenta. Changes in female hormone levels were monitored automatically; if pregnancy hormones were detected, a foetal termination would occur via a renewal paradigm during Telesync. This was a digital signal that triggered nano cells into delivering an electrical impulse to the ovaries, which then released hormones to fool her body that she was not pregnant and the embryo was lost. This kept women strong, healthy, and focused on the moral imperative of saving humanity.
    Many women were not even aware that this was happening. Some, well attuned to their bodies, sensed their