Akta Manniskor
Niska becomes „real"
Chapter 2
A week has passed since Eddi made that terrible suggestion. Nea was so outraged, that he seriously had wanted to put her embryo, her baby into that thing, how she still called the Hubot, that she had left the room and since then never stayed in its company much less talked to it.
Eddi had given the Hubot a name, and he called her Niska and asked her to do the dishes or clean the attic or wash his car. Niska always tipped her head and elegantly went to carry out that task. It was unnerving to watch. She had an human likeness about her which made her clearly different form the other Hubots and in was that which made Nea so afraid of her.
As Niska integrated into the household and Eddi became more and more used to her, Nea began to wonder whether it would be so awful after all. To have her Baby born of that machine. Better than not having one at all, surely.
It took the couple a month longer to decide on it but Neas depression returned in full force after a family dinner with more than one happy child, but finally they agreed to try.
Since the procedure was, if not explicitly illegal then at least frowned upon they organized a doctor which was sympathetic to their cause and secretly had one of their embryos implanted into the Hubot. Her special design would allow the embryo to grow as it would in a natural womb. In order not to raise suspicions they brought Niska to their summer residence which was isolated in the forest where no one would see her.