Tula’s chest heaved, but her fury crumbled as quickly as it had risen. Her voice faltered. The disbelief no longer roared—it simply hung in the air, heavy and paralyzing. She sank back into the pillows, eyes glassy. There was no explanation she could form that made any of this make sense.
The doctor hesitated, then spoke with the measured calm of someone walking a tightrope. “No one is accusing you of anything,” he said gently. “This isn’t about physical contact. What we’re considering is a rare, mostly theoretical phenomenon—parthenogenesis. It means conception without fertilization. In humans, it’s practically unheard of. But… your results suggest otherwise.”