Gideon watched quietly as Kilian and Kanna admired their newborn. The baby looked impossibly small in Kilian's hands, his fingers curled carefully around the tiny bundle as if even the slightest pressure might break him.
They had already chosen the name long before the child was born. If it had been a girl, they would have named her Nyla. But the baby was a boy, his name is Oliver.
He had arrived earlier than expected, a premature birth, yet his condition was stable and free of complications. Even so, Elaine insisted he needed to remain under observation for a while and stay inside the incubator.
Fortunately, the couple had prepared for the worst long ago. They had purchased an incubator, a rare relic from the old world. It had cost them a small fortune, but they had been saving cores for months and converting them into coins for exactly this reason.
