Chapter 420
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It was well known that many of the Arks had strict population laws. Women had to get a permit to even try to get pregnant. If a woman became pregnant without this permit, punishments varied. Most Arks gave this woman the option of terminating this pregnancy. If they refused, they might be beaten until they mis-carried. Some Arks were rumored to execute the woman. In some Arks, they isolated the woman until she gave birth. The woman was executed, the baby was put in the Ark's foster system. Eve wasn't sure how much truth there was to these rumors, but they made her fear for Hope's safety. They might view children as their future, but would they kill children outright when resources became too scarce. Eve would continue to pray for Hope's safety. If this baby wasn't proof of God's power, than God never spoke to humanity.
September 27th was Saturday. Adam and Eve had only the smart-phone to tell them the date, or the time. But it was Saturday night, making tonight movie night had become their tradition. It helped pass the time. Tonight they were watching an old movie called "Argo." The plot centered around the Iranian-hostage crises of 1979-1981. In particular a CIA agent who risked his own life to save six hostages, who'd escaped, but were stuck in Iran. Adam and Eve were amazed, was life really so precious once that the government would go out of their way, spend all these reources, to save six lives? Six individuals with no special skills. Later the "Villains" the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, kept their hostages alive for over a year, jerked America around for awhile, but ultimately they all got released. Parts of the movie were probably fiction, but it was mostly true. That a mission like this could be done covertly, without bloodshed, fascinated Adam and Eve. This was not the world they'd been forced to grow up in. Angry mobs didn't usually take hostages and refrain from killing their victims for very long. The irony was these people had no idea how good they had it. America in the late 1970s and early 80s may not have been the land of milk and honey, but it was better than the current world.