[The touch helps, even though Konoha feels badly that Angela once again is the one who feels she has to comfort her, when Konoha feels as if it ought to be the other way around.
She says it's not permanent, and that she's getting too old, and Konoha is too upset to even color at the mention of babies coming from just... "foreign objects", but.
But-]
... So it really is true? About coming here making us barren?
[She'd been afraid to ask before, when she'd gone in for the appointment. Other people she knew had mentioned such things in passing, making up for how overwhelmed she'd been during her arrival and orientation on the moon, but those were just... people.
no subject
She says it's not permanent, and that she's getting too old, and Konoha is too upset to even color at the mention of babies coming from just... "foreign objects", but.
But-]
... So it really is true? About coming here making us barren?
[She'd been afraid to ask before, when she'd gone in for the appointment. Other people she knew had mentioned such things in passing, making up for how overwhelmed she'd been during her arrival and orientation on the moon, but those were just... people.
Not midwives. Not doctors. Not Angela.]