Preggers!

The morning sun stretched lazily over the Tokyo skyline, slipping through the curtains of the mansion in gold strips that cut across the polished floors and the green of the garden below. The world was still waking, soft light bathing everything in a gentle clarity, and the mansion felt momentarily at peace.

The kids had gone to school, their small uniforms carrying them into the mundane rhythm of life outside this house. A rhythm that had once been fractured, that now somehow ...