Artemis let out an audible sigh of relief, when she was standing back on her own two feet. Rubbing her neck with her right hand and swallowing the pain that had settled for that short time. She knew he barely had used any force and yet, she knew that her neck would be red and soon a bruise would form. To her it had been a strange day, and she realized that she expected to wake up from a dream. Why did that though make her feel despair? The answer was simple in her mind, which meant that she would be alone again. She wouldn’t have anyone to talk to and that was worse than death. Still, she wanted to know so much more, she wanted to explore space and be seen as an equal in that world that his kind would be creating, even if it was just as a pet to the aliens.

She barely had been able to catch her breath, when the images filled his mind. She could see that the woman did seem more delicate than the males of his kind. And she then looked at him with a frown. “I don’t know. It depends.” She told him, realizing he probably didn’t even understand what she was telling him. Biting her lip as she tried to think of a way to tell the man that it all depended on how well their reproductive organ still worked. She sadly only knew the basics, as she still had been in school for a medical degree.

“How am I going to explain this?” she asked herself aloud. Only to think about a video about a woman that had to get her eggs planted into another person, because her uterus wasn’t up to the job. And so she took the tablet again. Moving to look up a picture of a woman and then the video that showed how a baby normally was born. It even had their chromosomes and if he knew anything about medicine, he could see that their DNA was quite alike. It went through all the stages and then she paused it at the uterus.  “Uterus.” She said as she then pointed where it was at her body. Only to move to the ovaries and showing him a video of a woman making eggs. “Eggs.” She said as she then pulled at her hair.

“No Eggs, no baby” she said as she then showed a picture of a baby. “Bad uterus... No baby” she said as she then went to the movie of the woman who had used the egg of another woman. Her DNA was replaced in that egg and then the sperm of her man was used to get a viable embryo. She then showed the movie where another woman, got the egg planted into her body. Carrying the baby to term and then handing it to the couple.

Artemis didn’t understand how a woman could even get rid of a baby, she knew that she never would want to give it up. It was then that she remembered that humans had brought back zebras by using that technique and putting the embryos in horses. Showing it to him that she knew there had to be a way to get it done. But then they would need a viable host body. Briefly wondering if a human could be a surrogate. A part of her even wondered if their species, it they combined, if they would get a hybrid that was able to reproduce. And so she also showed the result of a donkey and a horse. The mule was adorable and so she pointed at that “No baby.” She said as she hoped he would be understanding it all. It was best she would talk to a doctor, she would need to do a whole lot of studying and she knew that even then, she wouldn’t be able to make the medicine.

Going back to the picture of the woman that couldn’t have babies, showing that she was taking medicine. Then looking up the structure of that medicine on the screen. Would his species know organic chemistry? 

She knew he was much smarter and so she knew he needed to learn her language. She also wanted to learn his language, since it sounded a lot nicer than the language she spoke. It also would serve as survival for her kind.

She then decided it wasn’t a bad idea to get him to understand that they probably needed a specialist. Showing the different doctors and focusing back to that specialist that had helped the woman. “Specialist doctor.” She said as she took a deep breath. “We need specialist doctor.” She said as she could only do so much. She was still a young woman, one that had wished to become a doctor, yet she was nowhere near that. She couldn’t make the medicine, she couldn’t even find out what hormones would be needed for his kind. That would need someone that knew things, how were they even going to find that? She didn’t believe that another alien would be as kind as Azdrei’in. Then there was the fact that there was so much more information on the internet.

“Or internet.” She said as she wondered how she was going to explain that. “This.” She said as she then showed the picture of their small room filled with servers. Yet they only held a fraction of information that his father was able to download from the internet. “Very little of internet” she said as she then went to show a video that explained the internet to old people. How it would send information all over the world. “Internet broken… virus… no people, no internet.” She said as she then looked at him.

“I need the internet to help” she said as she then looked at him. Hoping that he would understand. Unable to stop the yawn from forming as she covered her mouth. She could fight it a bit longer, yet she knew that her headache only would go away if she slept. 

Her throat hurting a little as she then went to grab herself a cough drop. Putting it in her mouth and loving the fact that it gave her a little relief from the pain that had started after he had grabbed her by the throat. She just hoped her help was enough to keep her alive. And if she was correct, his kind probably needed humans to carry their babies. Her mind going to dark places as she was only human. Human woman being bred with men to get more females, those females only used to carry child after child of his kind. They locked in cages, all alone. Shaking her head to get that image out of her head, she rather be in a cage than in this bunker anyway.