>>5944194Sure, you’ll leave it to Arachne, this whole thing is making you uncomfortable anyway.
While you’re waiting for Arachne’s verdict, you decide to integrate within the community a little more. Etsy’s Russian is still terrible, but she picked up a few words here and there by osmosis, so she sometimes manages to muster a hello to the people that work at D.I.Y. It’s the best you could hope from her, you suppose. On your end, you try to talk to your neighbors when you can, and chat with the other parents waiting for their kid at the pre-school. It doesn’t go well with the neighbors, as most of them spit on the ground every time you try to talk to them. The parents are a little more accommodating, as you can at least bond over the shared experience of raising a ‘special’ kid. It takes a little bit of time to get to a point where the populace stops calling you slurs, but you do get there. It’ll take a little bit more work before you can fully integrate within the community, and you can’t say you’ve made any ‘friends’ per se, but you’ve done pretty well thus far.
Etsy’s pregnancy is confirmed, and you go through the motion until the moment comes. It’s a lot less stressful this time, but it’s still an ordeal, especially without Leah lowering Etsy’s pain, but at least Etsy made sure to give you a few tools to help you get the kid out. You wish she’d go to a real doctor for this, because you feel really inadequate for something so important, and you have no idea what you’d need to do if something went wrong.
Thankfully, nothing does, and you are presented with a beautiful boy. Unlike Sophia, he actually has hair, although he looks a little weird in other ways. He tends to open his eyes wide when he cries, much wider than you’ve seen Sophia do, he looks like an owl when he does this. Even so, he’s cute in his own way, and you’re filled with joy as you present the new member of the family to Etsy.
Sophia wasn’t here for her brother’s arrival, but she doesn’t seem to care that much about him when she first meets him, it’s like she doesn’t even register him as a human being since he’s just a baby that can’t do much. Speaking of, you need to give your son a name, maybe a Russian name would be nice for him to integrate better.
>Write in a name (will default to Ivan on a tie)Arachne also tells you that she thinks calling Mary is safe, and that your soul just has an adverse reaction to this girl because your name was erased by her. Of course, there’s still a risk to calling her, and that’s up to you to decide if it’s worth it.
>Call Mary.>Don’t. 