For
lilfluff's prompt (and how I didn't take the Crim. Minds one, I don't knoooow).
Names from Fourteen Minutes
The first thing Aarosa could remember was being passed from the robo-nanny's arms into the living nanny's. She remembered, although unclearly, opening her eyes and seeing another being looking back at her from the nanny's other arm.
Later questioning led her to believe that that had been Aarob, and that they had been, at that point, four months old.
By the time they were four years old, over half of the colonists had been decanted. The ship was overrun with small people, and Aarosa, Aarob, and the rest of her age-mates had their hands full, helping the robo-nannies and the living ones manage Bbiel's group, and Ccarne's, and so on.
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Names from Fourteen Minutes
The first thing Aarosa could remember was being passed from the robo-nanny's arms into the living nanny's. She remembered, although unclearly, opening her eyes and seeing another being looking back at her from the nanny's other arm.
Later questioning led her to believe that that had been Aarob, and that they had been, at that point, four months old.
By the time they were four years old, over half of the colonists had been decanted. The ship was overrun with small people, and Aarosa, Aarob, and the rest of her age-mates had their hands full, helping the robo-nannies and the living ones manage Bbiel's group, and Ccarne's, and so on.
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