"I'm—I'm not surprised that I did not make the team, but I do believe it is for the best," Desdemona began. She hadn't planned on telling him until it was actually happening and now it had gone too far for her to backtrack. She was beginning to blush.

"As you know, a woman has...cycles of fertility—" did he actually know? "—and a step in mine has been...delayed, leading me to believe I might be expecting once again."

So much for the rather disturbing-looking prophylactic the pair employed.