Aldry Anderfem put her scanner rod back in its charging holder on the portable body scanner. This first pregnancy for a “full” Kobani couple was being followed and studied with intense interest. Carol looked at her pleased husband. “See? I told you I knew it was a boy.” He was elated if he was having a son, but wondered how his wife knew. “Hon, the baby doesn’t have language yet, nor real thoughts. Certainly, no mental pictures to share with us or that he could understand from us. Are you certain you or I didn’t accidentally insert our own desires to have a boy into the baby’s mind, and that’s what you sense? A baby girl that thinks she’s a boy?” This was part of what Aldry was here to assess, and to reassure these young first time parents of what to expect. To explain how an unborn child, conceived of Kobani parents with the latest set of genetic modifications, would be affected by its parent’s new mental ability and the child’s own inherited mind reading ability.
