It was hardly the world she had imagined for the baby. Over the last year or so, Othar had been safe, and its future was bright. Equus was shaping up to be one of the most successful Pioneering Society colonies imaginable. Advanced alien natives, with a rich culture and many years of history. But that wasn’t the world where this baby was conceived. We still thought we were in hiding from Celestia back then. We thought she could find and kill us any moment.