“I don’t see anything wrong, why don’t you want to adopt it?” asked Anindo. “I don’t want to. It’s my choice. It seems artificial to me. Its like I would lose my real being!” said Piuly quite distressingly. “It is not anymore artificial Piuly”, said Anindo with a mocking tone. “In this 23rd century the artificiality itself has become the reality. You cannot cope up with your surroundings without implanting these kinds of chips in your body and brain. You seem to be quite backdated.” “So am I”, replies Piuly. “You cannot force me.”
Piuly seems to be disappointed for few days. She does not believe that the chip that Anindo wants her to be implanted on her brain to lessen her depression will work. She thinks happiness comes from within and doubts on merely a chip that is made to make humans happy. The reason of her depression is not having a child. Though it is not a matter of concern now-a-days, she is not happy with her disability. Majority of people are either borrowing womb or taking test tube babies. Piuly sees it as not giving birth to a child rather as ordering it! “How ridiculous!” she feels awkward. But she feels helpless after today’s conversation with Anindo. “Anindo wants me to be happy because he wants to be happy as well. And It’s a baby that can make both of us happy as before”, she ponders of these things throughout the whole night. Piuly decides to borrow a womb from a professional womb renter. In the morning by making her husband amazed she tells him, “let us have a child and you can make your child as much upgraded as you want”
