The Power of the Child

by La Flamingo

[Children of Men] Small and tiny she may be, helpless on her own and unable to protect herself, but this new child in the age of the dying affected even the smallest of characters. Drabble.

6. Basics of Biology

Basics of Biology
(Marichka)

Marichka only anchor in the madness was the money, the rooms, and Santa. When tall man and the black woman frantically found her in the darkness of that night, she reasoned that it would be no different.

But ah...how things change. Marichka may not speak their language, nor understand their customs or lives, but she knows the basics of biology when she sees them.

Plump stomach. Stopping and going. Pain.

Pregnant. A part of her whispers. The woman is pregnant.

They shoo her and Santa out of the room not more than five seconds later, trying frantically to hide their secret.

But Marichka already knows.