"There's always more space if you believe my mother." Ziggy said it with loving affection but also as if his mother may have an obsession with plants.

"Born is different for an Anthean." Ziggy tells him as he walks up toward the house and around the back toward the greenhouse. "The baby leaves the body early and develops farther in the pouch. I'm not sure if she was 'born' in the human sense of the word when you met her first."