Chapter 462: Back to Elmo
Jonas sighed. Elin wasn't sure what was going though his head at the moment, but she hoped that he would explain it to her in a way that would allow her to understand what Elmo had tried to tell her. Even though she had her doubts that she'd ever be able to understand his explanation.
"Where would you like me to start?" Jonas asked, sounding as tired as she often felt when she would curl up next to Kim before going to sleep.
Elin hesitated. Before this point she could have pretended that everything would be fine once she got the explanation that she could understand. While she thought that explanation should come from Jonas, since she knew he'd be willing and she didn't want to get Kim's hopes up about the matter, it was still something that hadn't happen yet.
However, now she was on the edge of that. If it worked then it'd come true, but she had to acknowledge the possibility that she still wouldn't be able to understand what was said. That it'd still be beyond her abilities to know. It was that possibility that worried her and caused her to balk at moving forward.
Yet, at the same time, she knew that if she didn't move forward at this point, that she might as well give up on it altogether. As se wouldn't understand it if she at least didn't try to run the risk of not being able to understand something simpler than what Elmo had explained to her.
"Well, Elmo explained that essentially I had to find a way to fertilize the egg with the essence of another person and that if I wanted another female to fertilize my egg, that I'd probably do better to use one of their eggs because of the chromosomes or something, but that if I couldn't do that for any reason, that I should try to get something that has the most amount of their DNA in it, even if I had to use some from multiple points," Elin said, a little surprised at how much of a rush it all came out in. Almost like it had been a flood of water straining at what had held it back.
Jonas blinked before chuckling for a moment. "Okay, let's start with some basics," he said, before launching into an explanation about her body that Elin felt was so alien, yet so logical that she couldn't help but accept it as truth.
Even though she felt like some of the parts of the explanation, like her having eggs inside of her, were a little too much to really believe. Yet, Jonas spoke with so much conviction about the subject that she couldn't find it in her to doubt that he at least believed that to be true.
The only thing that Elin couldn't help but wonder about in the explanation was if they were close enough to each other, given the fact that they came from separate worlds, to even have the same kind of biology as each other. Yet, since she didn't have any evidence otherwise, she had to assume that what Jonas was explaining to her could very well also apply to her, despite her own unease about the subject.