I'm fine. I'm one of the lucky ones, in a lot of ways. I don't think I really have a lot to complain about.
[At least Li's family is alive, somewhere out there, even if she can't see them. At least she was only trained in this and not something worse. She knows how bad things can get in the darkest recesses of her world. Compared to other people, she's doing fairly well. Especially now that she's here, where no one can give her orders and no one can harm her if she disobeys those orders.
Padmé is the one who died. That's substantially worse. For her, this is the afterlife, and what a strange, baffling afterlife this must be to arrive in, too.]
It is. The one good thing about moving from Beijing to Suzhou is that even though Suzhou is smaller, it has the better food. Even when I wasn't allowed to get some, even the smell is nice to have around. It makes the air sweeter. [Very few things distract her from her work, but dragon's beard candy, flower twists and sachima will make her attention divert, if only for a moment. Somewhere underneath the layers of professionalism is a sweet tooth that never got fully trained out of her.
Li shrugs, a little helpless as to how this happened.]
You'd have to ask a doctor. There might have been something else wrong that isn't obvious to you or I but a doctor could identify. I don't know much about pregnancy to start with. I'm not capable of getting pregnant so I just never looked into the science of that kind of thing, honestly.
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[At least Li's family is alive, somewhere out there, even if she can't see them. At least she was only trained in this and not something worse. She knows how bad things can get in the darkest recesses of her world. Compared to other people, she's doing fairly well. Especially now that she's here, where no one can give her orders and no one can harm her if she disobeys those orders.
Padmé is the one who died. That's substantially worse. For her, this is the afterlife, and what a strange, baffling afterlife this must be to arrive in, too.]
It is. The one good thing about moving from Beijing to Suzhou is that even though Suzhou is smaller, it has the better food. Even when I wasn't allowed to get some, even the smell is nice to have around. It makes the air sweeter. [Very few things distract her from her work, but dragon's beard candy, flower twists and sachima will make her attention divert, if only for a moment. Somewhere underneath the layers of professionalism is a sweet tooth that never got fully trained out of her.
Li shrugs, a little helpless as to how this happened.]
You'd have to ask a doctor. There might have been something else wrong that isn't obvious to you or I but a doctor could identify. I don't know much about pregnancy to start with. I'm not capable of getting pregnant so I just never looked into the science of that kind of thing, honestly.