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You look around the home. This is a modest woman, with modest means. Even now you can see how much a man, even a hornless man, could help around here. If she had a son, he could do the heavy lifting to provide food for the family, he could fix the damaged parts of the walls...
But as you sit there and look over the woman's body with the machine, the more and more you wonder if Maktana had really been honest with you. He always was- but he did teach you a few things to give you pause. Curses and magic don't exist. Everything happens for a physical, explainable reason- that's what he taught you. You can see the embryo now- the device showing you the X-Ray and the little squirming thing you're supposed to just... kill.
But you look closer and you can see its form. Maktana said this child skipped a vital stage of development and had a birth defect, right? So if you could undo that damage... would that work? You can see now the top of the baby's head, the spots where the horns are supposed to begin forming. Looking with the device, you see how the skin and adipose tissue grew over those horn spots. Could you...?
A plan begins to form in your mind. Using this extremely precise laser surgery tool, which can do things inside of people without even breaking the skin, you could try to rip open the spots over the horn growth pads. By doing so, you'd imagine, it would allow nutrients and juices to flow into them, beginning the growth process this baby skipped. But if you did so, you'd only be inches away from the baby's skull and head- one wrong slip and you'd be firing a laser into its vulnerable brain, potentially killing it or causing permanent brain damage.
It's easy to think, logically, that you were going to kill this baby anyway, so it's worth a shot. But that's not the kind of thinking you naturally have, it irks you to think that way. That's the way the Star-Men think. But what do you think? These surgical tools that Maktana gave you are sized for an Alpha-Male Jaxtian, the biggest possible, and even so your clumsy green hands can barely hold them right. This would require a great deal of precision but maybe... maybe you could fix the baby. Correct the mistake, without killing it. It wouldn't fix its genetic gene profile or whatever but...
>Attempt the corrective procedure
>Terminate the pregnancy
>Quit your internship and leave
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