The days following the wedding proceeded with the specific quality of ordinary life continuing alongside genuinely extraordinary circumstance — Coalition's institutional demands resuming their accustomed pace even as Rama and Sekar carried, privately, something that reorganized every previous assumption about what the coming months might actually require of them.
They spoke first with Dr. Chen, not through formal medical channels initially but through the specific trust seven years of collaborative work had established, understanding correctly that whatever this pregnancy actually meant for hybrid physiology would require careful, honest investigation rather than assumed continuity with ordinary human gestation.
