Both fortunately and unfortunately, Ethan's doctors were in rare and complete agreement: he was not leaving Saha for at least another two months.
"There are too many variables," one of them had explained, careful and clinical. "His body is still adapting. The uterus and the supporting organs aren't fully developed yet. Long travel, stress, a sudden complication - any of it could turn into internal bleeding we might not be able to control in time."
Ethan had listened in silence, then said dryly, "So, in short, I could bleed to death because an emperor wants to tick a witness off his list."
No one contradicted him.
In the end, he refused to testify at all.
