Mostly. She handled her duties at the War College, lectured, reviewed her professors’ assignments, and helped Aaron with Groves Industries. But behind the daily grind was the quiet excitement each night as she got home and checked the little robot inside her to verify progress. It dutifully monitored her hormone and blood chemistry, telling her that all those complicated numbers were well within the normal range for an early human pregnancy. Pip moved aboard the Kaatan full time, adopting one of the zero gravity labs as his home away from home. From there he worked on his various duties as a Chosen and on the projects Minu assigned. Lilith called to Minu with daily updates. At first Minu insisted that daily updates were not necessary. Then she realized her daughter was really calling to find out about the baby. She was completely fascinated with the idea and wanted to know every detail, even though there was nothing to talk about. It was only two weeks later when she completely surprised Minu.